So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.