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I started playing music when I was really young.

I started playing music when I was 12 years old.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.