When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
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.
Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
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.
Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.