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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.