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I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I don't really write songs anymore.

My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I don't write songs.