I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.
Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.