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Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.

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.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

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.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.