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I was heavily involved in musical theater.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

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.

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.