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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

I started writing songs at 17.

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.