"I hated just writing in general for school." Which was maybe funny since he wrote a lot of his own songs now. But writing for school and writing for yourself were two very different things.

"Yeah, I was thinking about doing something like that, putting on a performance sometime. But I dunno how interesting me and a guitar would be." An acoustic at that, not even an electric.

Tilting his head to the side, he added, "Were you not...close with your dad, or something?" How else could someone not know for sure what one of their parents was doing?