“I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. I didn't take it all that seriously when I started. It was a little bit of a stigma to being a songwriter or a folkie back then. I did a lot of send-ups of sensitive singer-songwriter stuff when I was starting out, which limited my development as a songwriter in a way. I wasn't really fully given license to explore that until the mid-90s. I'm still working on it; I'm a little bit of a late bloomer.”
![“[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.” quote by Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/755/beck-3337_attitude_early-on-the-attitude-was-that-what-i-wa_39878.jpg)
![“I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.” quote by Tyler Blackburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7e3/tyler-blackburn-17088_different_i-was-kind-of-a-floater-in-high-school-i_146099.jpg)
