Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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.
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.
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.
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.
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.