If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.
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