I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
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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.
It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.
But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
I didn't start making music in order to be famous.
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
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.
I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.
Writing music is just something that I was born to do.