Lukas Nelson

You really were.

It's moments like those where I started to gain confidence.

You know, I'd have over the years...

I'd go out and play, and I'd play my songs that I've written, and I'd get crowds that would do that.

And so that gave me the confidence to keep going.

And I first started playing music in order to get closer to my father.

Oh, wow.

You know what I mean?

So he would be gone all the time, and I'd be missing him.

And so in order to get close to him, I figured I need to speak the same musical language.

And so I learned Young, and I wrote a song, Young, that's on the new album actually I got.

It's called You Were It.

It's the first song I ever wrote when I was 11.

Wow.

And my dad loved it so much that he covered it.

at the time, and he put it out on his album back in 2004 called It Always Will Be.

The album was called It Always Will Be.

And that gave me the confidence at a young age.

Kris Kristofferson came up to me and he's like, man, you don't have a choice but to be a songwriter.

And so I had all this inspiration at a young age.