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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

I never learned to read music.

I had no musical training at all.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.