I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
“Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.”
“I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.”