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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.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

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.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.