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As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

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

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.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

I started playing music when I was really young.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.