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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I always wanted to write. I was probably in high school when I realized the things I was writing weren't books; they were movies, they were visual.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since.