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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I'm not really a pianist.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.