I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.
My muse has always been the piano.
Piano is one of those instruments you don't have to be good at to sound good - you just have to know where to put three little fingers, which is really pretty easy to figure out.