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But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.