To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you fee