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I write my music.

I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.