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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

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 just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.