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I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

I learn my songs by ear.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

The point is to almost be child-minded, like you're discovering music for the first time, every time you play.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.