I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.