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Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.