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Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.