The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.