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Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

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.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.