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When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.