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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.

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.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.