A Lot Of Kids Spent More Time

I End Up Writing About All Kinds Of Things. I Never Make An Attempt To Write About Anything In Particular. I Don't Have A Little List Of Topics To Write About.

Growing Up In Cleveland, I Learned About Singing From My Mother, Who Had Once Sung Professionally And Who Admired Mahalia Jackson And Aretha Franklin.

I Never Assumed I Would Have That Commercial Success, So It Was A Total Surprise. And Honestly, I Never Assumed That It Would Ever Happen Again.

My Older Sister Encouraged Me From Early On And Bought Me One Of The First Guitars I Had. She Listened To All Of The Crappy Songs That I Wrote When I Was 8 Years Old And Encouraged Me To Keep Doing It.

I Think Many People Would Say That Writers Like Stephen King Have Hypergraphia.