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It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.