00:00How do you explain your talent, the writing ability, where did that come from?
00:06I consider anything like that to be a gift from God, anybody.
00:10You write words and music.
00:11Yes, and I hear the melodies in my head and I hear the chords in my head
00:15and I have to sing out the chords to the people because I quit my piano lessons at six.
00:20You don't read music.
00:20I don't read music and my mom is this classically trained person and I went the other way.
00:24And I think it's helped me write songs that I wouldn't have written if I were going at the technical
00:29way
00:29because I go, oh, you can't go from this chord to that chord.
00:32It's not the way you're supposed to do it.
00:33I remember in Berlin, couldn't read music.
00:34Right.
00:35Wrote some songs and you break rules that way.
00:37Right, that's the thing.
00:38So if I ever do, I mean, I play sometimes, but my melodies come to me so quickly
00:43that I can't keep up with it on the piano.
00:45Certain songs like Vision of Love I wrote on the piano or All I Want for Christmas I started on
00:49the piano,
00:50but that's like really basic.
00:52Well, writing for me is almost more important than singing.
00:56It's hard to explain, particularly with this album, because I had so much that I had gone through
01:00and I just put it all into the writing of the music, the lyrics and the melodies and things like
01:05that.
01:06But I mean, I love interpreting other songs as well.
01:09It's just more special to me.
01:10You've got an amazing voice.
01:12That's a God instrument, right, given.
01:14I believe that when you get the gift of music, it is a God-given talent.
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