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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

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.

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

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.