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Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

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

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

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.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.