I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.