I fell in love with this girl, had a crush on this girl in sixth grade, and so I wanted to write about it.
I just felt like it was easier to, you know, sing these feelings in a song.
My whole story basically is kind of from writing music, falling in love, and then getting a broken heart, writing sad songs.
I wrote all these sad songs throughout junior high school and high school.
Because of that feeling that you did have in junior high school and high school, it being puppy love, the strongest kind of feeling you could have.
It's because it's new and you just think, you think you're gonna die.
That was the best thing about, I think, the late 80s and 90s music is that you used to have bridges, and it would make it fun to make records.
What makes a bridge exciting is when you have an artist that can take it to the next level.
They take it beyond what you imagined it could be.
And that was always the joy of working with any artist, where you would go in the studio, whether it's a Whitney Houston, or you go with Aretha Franklin, or a Tevin Campbell, and Boyz II Men, where you demo the record, and then they come in, and they take it to a place you didn't know it could go to.
