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I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.