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The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.