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Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

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

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.