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It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.