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In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

I miss the emotion of singing. There is something about it which means you can express emotions to people without actually talking to them.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

Any musical output is emotional.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, revealing different parts of my voice. I know what my voice is capable of, and I try to fit it to each song, evoke a mood.

I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.

You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song comes from bluegrass. Bluegrass taught me to interpret a song, not just sing it.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

Voice is the first instrument.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

Singing is my first love.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.