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I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!