I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.
My earliest memories have to do with music.
I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.
