My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.
