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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.