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I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

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

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.