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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 have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.

In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.