I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.