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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.
Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.
I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
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.
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.
I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.