John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.