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I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.