I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.
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.
I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.
I started playing music when I was really young.
When I was younger, music was always there.
I don't think I ever heard music playing when I was younger, other than the radio. My parents got me a Walkman and stuff like that, but I was always way more into listening to music than they were.