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Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.