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Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I was raised around music.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.