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It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

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

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.