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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.