I was born on Mariah, Whitney and Celine Dion and as I got older I listen to a lot of Rock music, I also listened to the Boy bands and teen pop when it was huge back in like 98/01. I wish I was a lot older to truly have appreciated it. I love The Tories, Avion, Backstreet Boys, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson and a ton of others. When I was younger I listened to loads of female artists but as I got older and came to accept that it was okay to be gay and like guys I started listening to more guys, but Kelly and Leona are my favorite female singers.

There's a rock band from Cali called The Tories and there was another band also from Cali called Avion, and both bands were fronted by a guy named Steve Bertrand. Every time I hear a song of his it inspires me a whole ton. As far as writing my own stuff goes, I've had a lot of writers block recently. It'd be such an amazing time if Steve could write and sing songs with me.

As far as what made me want to write, I think I was always naturally good at poetry and I was always good at rhyming things, but my lyrics kind of sucked. I mean, most of the stuff I wrote was when I was 13/15 and I was writing your typical cheesy teenage baby I love you type songs when I didn't know the first thing about what love is, and at the old age of 31 I honestly still don't. My lyrics kind of got more hilarious as I got older. When I figured out and accepted I was gay I started writing songs about guys and how they did me wrong. Some of them were about encounters I've dealt with in real life, others were fictional and some of them were super funny because some sets of lyrics were written when I was stoned out of my mind. I wish I had those lyrics but all of that got lost in a hard drive crash when my external drive kicked the bucket. Lesson learned don't ever use External drives, use cloud storage instead.

As far as lyrics go I was lucky that the words I wrote were original, but music and beats were a different story. When I was 15 or so and still learning about sound editing I'd download random backing tracks and try to loop instrumentals to try and make a melody. I can write lyrics but making melodies is super hard for me and I don't understand why. I've had perfect pitch since before I could talk, all I did was hum and if the note I was humming matched the note of the sound I was happy. Eventually I just kept at it and then when I learned how to talk I started singing shortly afterwards. IF someone were to write a song and give one to me I could sing it no problem, but trying to make my own melodies, well, let's just say it doesn't really go all that well.