As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.
I started playing music when I was really young.
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.