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In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

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

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.