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Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

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.