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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.