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My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.