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For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.

Acting is me, but music is even more me. It's everything.

All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about some deep existential quandary and explore all these dumb thought waves, and then think 'Is it effective to say that? Or is it effective to say one simple thing that communicates the feeling better?'

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.

I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was always going to do music.

Music composer Tanishk Bagchi has always believed in me.

I want to experiment with my voice and music because people have type-casted me as a soft ballad singer. I have to break that image.

I have always believed that indie music is the space where the real music actually happens, which actually sets the trend.

Independent music gives a musician that chance to narrate their personal journey through music.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

As a musician, I realize I am not only responsible for the music that I put out, but also for my actions and what I say in public.

As soon as a song plays, people want to skip to the next one. That's not how you judge a good or a bad music. You have to understand it, give it time. You have to feel.

I do get a lot of gifts. I get a lot of things to sign, too. People do collect the memorabilia. Between 'Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music,' there were beautiful plates that they made, and I've signed a lot of them.

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

I associate music with fun and joy.