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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they're singing. I think you really have to think about what you're singing. You have to make the public believe what you're singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it.

I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.