Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.