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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.