I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
“There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.”
“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!”