Pink: Staying True Page #3

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I never got caught after

I was 18...

because I knew I'd have

a record, but--

Disorderly conduct,

shoplifting--

I mean, I did steal "Showgirls",

I'll admit to that one.

And then I took it back

'cause it sucked, but--

Just dumb stuff, you know?

I lived in a small town and

honestly the police had nothing

better to do...

than harass kids that they

didn't think fit their

picture...

of a wholesome,

young girl or boy.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

The gifts that would turn

Alecia Moore...

into an international star,

were apparent from a young age.

During her teenage years,

she wrote her own music.

I always wrote poetry

when I was in school.

I always wrote a lot of poetry.

Poetry was kind of like my

medicine...

but I didn't really know how

to write songs until probably

four-- three or four years ago.

And then I just started turning

all my poetry into songs

with music...

and it just kind of happened,

it was just-- I don't know.

Cut.

Of all the hugely successful

commercial pop girls over the

last 15 years...

Pink was probably more involved

in the songwriting process

than most...

both lyrically and melodically.

Not everyone can write stuff

that appeals internationally

like that, so she's very cool.

I rate her highly as a

songwriter...

the things that she pushes out

and what she portrays...

I see as very much from herself.

The records speak for

themselves. They're quite

autobiographical.

Everything she has to say goes

into the music and into

the lyrics.

I've seen her work in a

recording studio...

the things I saw her do,

and how involved she was...

not just in writing and

singing...

I was like, "Okay, cool,

she knows what she's doing."

She does write her own stuff,

and music as well...

she plays a lot of

instruments...

to match what she writes,

so that's a talent in itself.

A lot of the songs are deeply

emotional...

and you can really feel

the pain.

She has an idea that if some

things, some sound, some

groove...

some fill, is brokening around

there, and then she tries

to find it.

The word play comes across

as what she thinks about...

you can really hear it in her

work, which, for me,

is very coherent.

I'm inspired when I'm angry

or I'm inspired when

I'm really happy...

or confused,

or something like that.

It has to be an extreme emotion

for me to sit down and write

a song.

( GUITAR PLAYING )

NARRATOR (V.O.):

There was nothing mellow

about Pink's teenage years.

She was unable to find focus

until she made music her life.

Pink had a pretty tumultuous

late-90's...

it was touch and go

at one point...

whether there would be any

future, let alone a musical

future.

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