What style of songs do you get the most response from, and how do you decide which songs are keepers?

Well, the style of song that gets the most response kinda depends on where it is; if it's in a bar where everybody's drinking and wanting to dance, then maybe a slow song doesn't have as much impact as it might have in another setting [say] in a concert setting. I like to make people dance and energize people, but I also like in the concert setting, just to have the ability to play something where my voice is very sensual, and you can just hear it in the room. I think that a song has to be absorbing to be a keeper. If it sort of fades and I'm not interested in it while I'm writing it, then I usually just drop it; and maybe it'll come back in another form. It should have some kind of emotional connection for me, and if it does, then I'm anxious to finish it; I'm anxious to live in the landscape of the song and to continue going until I've described everything I need to in that landscape.