By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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.
Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.
I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
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