I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.
I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.
I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
I was reared on folk music.