When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.
I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.
My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.
