Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely different music, and my fan base has followed me. They continue to follow me as the music progresses and as I grow as an artist. As long as I stay true and don't pretend to be someone I'm not, I hope they'll come along with it.
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once people know who you are, once you discover who you are, we're all in the same boat: it's down to whether people appreciate the music or not.
When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.
If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.
When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.