I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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.
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
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 made my first complete song when I was 9.
I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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 started writing songs at 17.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.