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I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

I was born loving music. It was always my friend.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.