My mother was into Bing Crosby and so on, so I heard a lot of jazz music when I was a kid, and classical music, too. 그러다 제가 몇 살 때 일본으로 돌아와서 피아니스트가 되고 싶다는 생각을 했어요. I started learning piano, but it didnt last long, about a year.