Why do you think he started playing guitar after he fired Guy? He needs to be able to write at least some basic chords and stuff for his songs now.
Apparently when he was first looking for a record deal he was reading some of the poems he had written to the managers or something, and they signed him because of them, because he was so good at writing the words. He'll probably have got more co-writers to help him structure the music and such, but they are his songs. I don't know if you've read his Nobody Someday book, it's pretty good, talks about all this and how no-one will believe he writes them himself, but I don't think he cares what people think really. I might get his new book Feel soon, see how that is.
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