Alan thinks any difference is due to being a self-taught writer.
"I think it's probably because, I mean if it is true, it's mainly because I never really studied other people's song writing much."
"When I started writing it was pretty late in my life and I really never paid a lot of attention to song writing and the different styles and really how songs are constructed - I just started writing you know. So I didn't have any guidelines to go by."
"And then when I moved to Nashville I didn't really fall into I guess some of the mainstream little cliques around town that...have their formulas. 'Cause most of those people are songwriters that are writing songs to try to get cut, so they have to write them the way - they feel like, 'Well if I don't do it like this, then this record label won't like it and this artist won't cut it.' So, it keeps them from just doing what they want to do sometimes I think. So with me, I didn't know any better and I wasn't writing for other people and so I just wrote what I liked and somehow it's worked."
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