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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.