NeYo chats to I Like Music

NE*YO: Yeah it was. At first they told me that she'd used something that I'd done, but I didn't know what, so then I got the album and listened to it, and I was like, 'oh, ok yeah, there it is.'

ILM: And how did you make the leap from writing songs as a youngster to writing hits and tracks for the likes of Mary J and Faith?

NE*YO: Well, I've been writing for a very long time. My first placement was with Marcus Houston. I did a song for him called That Girl; that was his first single from the album he put out before his current one. But it was just a natural transition.

My first stint at writing was journal entries. My mum was the person who put the pen in my hand and the paper in front of me and said 'write it down'. And she did that because she saw that I needed an outlet, because I had a lot of pent up anger in me because of the relationship my mother and father had. So it started out as journal entries, and then it eventually turned in to poetry and I started putting words together that rhymed, then from poetry it went into short stories, and I started making up random short stories about stuff. I was also singing throughout this whole thing, because I grew up in a very musical household.
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