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I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.