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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I just taught myself piano and guitar.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

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.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.

I think Post Malone makes great records, but I don't think he's a good rapper at all.

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.