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How did you hook up with Sheryl Crow and Dave Navarro, both of whom collaborated with you on Hotel Paper? I was on tour with Sheryl Crow last year, so she really turned into a good friend. When I called her, I was doing a song called "Love Me Like That," and the moment I started it I said, This song says Sheryl all over it. I called her and said, "Come down and be a part of it. I didn't know if she was going to write something for it or produce it, but she walked in and said, "I want to sing on it." So she sang on it, and "Are You Happy Now" has Dave Navarro on it. That came up because we were playing it in the studio and they were recording across the hall. He heard it come out, and he came across and said, "Who is this, I have to play on it." You had said that most of your songs are written on hotel stationary and that these are much more biographical than the ones on your last album. Have you written a lot about your maturing and becoming more of an adult? A lot of it is dealing with being on my own and being independent. Coming across new situations I had never been in before, meeting new people, seeing new things, different relationships — whether friendships or romantic. It pretty much documents the last two years for me and what I was feeling while I was on tour. How do you think your music reflects who you are, how you feel, and what you think about certain people? I am a very shy person when it comes to expressing my feelings. Music is the way I say things that I wouldn't normally say out loud. A lot of times I won't tell somebody what I am feeling, but I will play a song for them that will be about it. So writing has always been my favorite way of expressing myself. Sometimes I don't even realize that I am feeling that emotion or thinking of that until I actually write it and read it and say, Wow, I didn't realize I was feeling that way. Do you find it easy to put a melody to your words? Finding a melody for the words is the easiest part for me. If someone comes to me and has a couple cool chords that they are playing, I can find a melody for it in two seconds. It is my favorite thing to do. It's always the lyrics that are the hard part for me. I really hate coming up with cliché lyrics, and I always make sure that I am expressing myself correctly. Does the other music you listen to influence the music you create? Is there ever a time where you were writing something then you realize you've heard the melody before? Oh, yes. That happens all the time and that can get you into trouble. There are only 12 notes in music, so there are always going to be songs that remind you of things. Even on this record, there is a song called "Till I Get Over You" and I was listening to a lot of Aimee Mann when I wrote that song — and you can tell. Someone came up to me the other day and said, "I like that Aimee Mann-ish song on your record." Are there any people you would really love to hear sing your songs? I have always wanted to write a song for Faith Hill. She is a great vocalist. She always sings with such emotion and passion for the song. What sort of message do you hope to send out through your music? I don't know if there is a message in particular, but if someone is having a bad day and they turn on my record and smile for one minute, or if someone listens to my record and connects with me for one second and feels that there is someone out there that feels the same way they do, then I have done my job. Do you ever censor yourself when you're writing? I definitely have. Where I have written something and my first initial notion is to get really angry or cuss. Then I go back, and I am like, All right, there is a better way of saying this than having that vivid of a picture. Do you ever feel that you are revealing too much of yourself? I have thought about that, but then I think that if anyone ever figures out what this means or calls me on it, I could always just say it's not true, because how would they prove it? That is the cool thing about music, because someone can listen to a song and think something totally different than the next person. It is all about how you connect with it, and everyone has a different opinion of a song. Has anyone ever called you up and asked if a song was about them? Oh, yeah, people always call and say, "Who is 'Goodbye to You' about? Who is it? Tell me." I'm like, No. Or a lot of people thought when "Everywhere" came out it was a Christian song. People were saying, "Did you write it about God?" I was like, "No, but if that is what you get from it, cool." How do you think your music has touched people, in terms of the reactions from fans? The most inspiring thing for [fans] is that usually they are around the same age as I am. They get inspired that I went after something that I love doing. I have gotten letters from people that are like, "I am dying to be a pro tennis player. I heard your story and I heard your album and you made me want to do it." Then there are other people who are like, "I love your music and it gives me a reason to wake up in the morning, and gets me through some really hard times." So that is really amazing that you can have an effect on someone like that. תרגום ותקציר בקרוב...
How did you hook up with Sheryl Crow and Dave Navarro, both of whom collaborated with you on Hotel Paper? I was on tour with Sheryl Crow last year, so she really turned into a good friend. When I called her, I was doing a song called "Love Me Like That," and the moment I started it I said, This song says Sheryl all over it. I called her and said, "Come down and be a part of it. I didn't know if she was going to write something for it or produce it, but she walked in and said, "I want to sing on it." So she sang on it, and "Are You Happy Now" has Dave Navarro on it. That came up because we were playing it in the studio and they were recording across the hall. He heard it come out, and he came across and said, "Who is this, I have to play on it." You had said that most of your songs are written on hotel stationary and that these are much more biographical than the ones on your last album. Have you written a lot about your maturing and becoming more of an adult? A lot of it is dealing with being on my own and being independent. Coming across new situations I had never been in before, meeting new people, seeing new things, different relationships — whether friendships or romantic. It pretty much documents the last two years for me and what I was feeling while I was on tour. How do you think your music reflects who you are, how you feel, and what you think about certain people? I am a very shy person when it comes to expressing my feelings. Music is the way I say things that I wouldn't normally say out loud. A lot of times I won't tell somebody what I am feeling, but I will play a song for them that will be about it. So writing has always been my favorite way of expressing myself. Sometimes I don't even realize that I am feeling that emotion or thinking of that until I actually write it and read it and say, Wow, I didn't realize I was feeling that way. Do you find it easy to put a melody to your words? Finding a melody for the words is the easiest part for me. If someone comes to me and has a couple cool chords that they are playing, I can find a melody for it in two seconds. It is my favorite thing to do. It's always the lyrics that are the hard part for me. I really hate coming up with cliché lyrics, and I always make sure that I am expressing myself correctly. Does the other music you listen to influence the music you create? Is there ever a time where you were writing something then you realize you've heard the melody before? Oh, yes. That happens all the time and that can get you into trouble. There are only 12 notes in music, so there are always going to be songs that remind you of things. Even on this record, there is a song called "Till I Get Over You" and I was listening to a lot of Aimee Mann when I wrote that song — and you can tell. Someone came up to me the other day and said, "I like that Aimee Mann-ish song on your record." Are there any people you would really love to hear sing your songs? I have always wanted to write a song for Faith Hill. She is a great vocalist. She always sings with such emotion and passion for the song. What sort of message do you hope to send out through your music? I don't know if there is a message in particular, but if someone is having a bad day and they turn on my record and smile for one minute, or if someone listens to my record and connects with me for one second and feels that there is someone out there that feels the same way they do, then I have done my job. Do you ever censor yourself when you're writing? I definitely have. Where I have written something and my first initial notion is to get really angry or cuss. Then I go back, and I am like, All right, there is a better way of saying this than having that vivid of a picture. Do you ever feel that you are revealing too much of yourself? I have thought about that, but then I think that if anyone ever figures out what this means or calls me on it, I could always just say it's not true, because how would they prove it? That is the cool thing about music, because someone can listen to a song and think something totally different than the next person. It is all about how you connect with it, and everyone has a different opinion of a song. Has anyone ever called you up and asked if a song was about them? Oh, yeah, people always call and say, "Who is 'Goodbye to You' about? Who is it? Tell me." I'm like, No. Or a lot of people thought when "Everywhere" came out it was a Christian song. People were saying, "Did you write it about God?" I was like, "No, but if that is what you get from it, cool." How do you think your music has touched people, in terms of the reactions from fans? The most inspiring thing for [fans] is that usually they are around the same age as I am. They get inspired that I went after something that I love doing. I have gotten letters from people that are like, "I am dying to be a pro tennis player. I heard your story and I heard your album and you made me want to do it." Then there are other people who are like, "I love your music and it gives me a reason to wake up in the morning, and gets me through some really hard times." So that is really amazing that you can have an effect on someone like that. תרגום ותקציר בקרוב...
