I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

My parents kept me very grounded.

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

I've always considered myself to be a travelling soul. I've never felt out of place anywhere.