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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 just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

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

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.