I started writing songs when I was about 8 or 9 years old. They were okay. But not very good. I would write them on a sheet of paper, and hide them in a black tin can container that had red roses on it. Somewhere along the way, the songs got lost. But I started writing again in the Fall of 2006, when I started to struggle with depression. Writing poems and songs became an outlet for me. I could talk about my pain freely.
And by writing, it was also an outlet for me to release my pain. I didn't feel like it was bottled up as much. And it felt like therapy for me. |