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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.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

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.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

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

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!