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Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

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

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

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

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.