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I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.