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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.