I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.
Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.