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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.