Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
That's what my life is, writing songs.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
I really didn't think about song writing.
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.