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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.