I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.
Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.
Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
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.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.