It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.
It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.
As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
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