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I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.