work on your voice. You have the potential to have an amazingly unique voice and I'm not kidding. I hate people with perfect voices like on american idol. warm your voice up A LOT before you record. I sometimes like to warm up too much so I get a nice little bit of raspyness. Take off the effect, it gets annoying after a while. Try to sound more upset when your singing, like your crying almost and work on your inflections. your voice is an instrument just like the guitar and NO MATTER HOW BAD YOU THINK YOU ARE, IF YOU KEEP PRACTICING YOU WILL geT BETTER.