I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.
From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life.
I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.