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(Laughs) Oh…was…you had been writing songs a good while as…as a young fellow, right? As early as 11 or 12, is that what I read?

Yeah, I started just trying to make up some songs back then. I didn’t really get serious about trying to write songs until probably maybe my senior year or so in…junior or senior year in high school. And then continued to…to try and write some. When I got over here, I was pointing up to the library a while ago and remembering the night I got kicked out of the library one night. I was in there studying and I had the…a pencil and…and I was…I was making up this song in my head and I was tapping the eraser of the pencil on the desk. And one of the librarians came over and said, “You…you’re gonna have to stop that – you’re disturbing the students.” I wasn’t even aware that I was doing it. I mean, I was making up this song in my head and, uh, so she walked away and…(laughs).. a few minutes later I guess I was back at it…

Back at it.

…not even realizing I was doing it. And she came over and she said, “Sir, this is your second warning, you’ll have to leave”, so I got kicked out of the library for writing a song. (Laughs).

Oh…

The good news is I got the song recorded.