I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it.
I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.
When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.
I started playing guitar when I was 14.
Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.
I found something I loved to do when I was 15 - making pizzas.
I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).
I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves - it was a terrible name - the Blue Zoots. We couldn't actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
I've always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera.
I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.
My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.
I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that's kind of cool, actually.
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.
Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.
I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.
