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

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.