I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I'd go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.
All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.