I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.
Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.
It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.