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When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.