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Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I love to sing with great singers.

As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.