So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.