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" Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am. "

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" When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character. "

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