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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.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time.

When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.