I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.
I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.
I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.
That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.
