 You started playing at four. You asked your parents for a piano? That's actually a true story, and my parents aren't musical at all. I mean, I grew up, and we did not even have a record player in the house, but there was something in me that wanted to play music. And luckily, my parents have always been supportive. They heard me at the age of four or so, and they did buy me a little junk upright piano that they threw in the basement.