I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.
Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.
When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.
I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really loved Breaking Benjamin and bands like that.
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
I used to play 'Grand Theft Auto' when I was an early teen, between eleven and thirteen.
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
