Inspiration
At first, the producer/singer didn’t really think the outcome of 'Porcelain' was quite epic, at all… "I actually had to be talked into including it," he told Rolling Stone ten years after the release of his album Play.
"When I first recorded it, I thought ["Porcelain"] was average. I didn’t like the way I produced it, I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocals sounded really weak. I couldn’t imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it. When the tour for Play started, 'Porcelain' was the song during the set where most people would get a drink."