I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
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 was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.
I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.