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I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.