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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.