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I have a pretty good ear.

I learn my songs by ear.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I'm a very musical person.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.