Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

