I heard Nirvana and discovered that songs could be like poetry but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
I've always written. When I was in school the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers their trying their hand at poetry.
