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I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.