Who are You to Change Your Song?

Sometime in the early teens, I went to this lunch that was for a guy that was the head of a summer camp I used to go to, and I bumped into a couple people. You know, when you're at one of these things where people have common interests, and you kind of gravitate to people that seem like you'd be friends with. One of these guys, he's just randomly like, “Hey, I'm in this songwriting group. You should do it.” And my response was, “OK.” And that's the moment I got seriously into writing. And it's so funny that a songwriting kind of—not journey, that makes it sound more important than it is—but, like, my writing started really with that. And in the same token with writing, I think you do have to be open to what the world is putting out there. I heard the guy from the La's talking about it the other day. He was saying that he's a transmitter, and he just puts down what he gets, and he doesn't even edit it, which is super ballsy and cool. And I would say that it's a game of luck and showing…