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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

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.

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.