My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school.