I was 15 when I started making music properly.
I formed my first band when I was going to Valley Torah High School in Los Angeles.
The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless.
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.
We were just a high school band that loved music, you know?
I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.
I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.
I recorded my first song when I was 13, 14 years old, and I've been running with it ever since.
I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.
