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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'