Went from tapping Christmas carols with my fingers in the high chair, to pian...o lessons from 5-14, with some special "Hey you're going to Julliard" lessons in 5th-6th grade, finally declaring to Mom, "I don't want to go" with dead seriousness. I forsaw a life at Julliard and didn't like what I saw in my mind. Probably would have been fine had I gone, but I never regretted saying "No" - and... "