So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started making music professionally when I was 14.
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.
When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.
I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.
The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.