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When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

I started playing music when I was really young.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.