But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.