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There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.

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

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

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

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.