Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.
Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.
Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.