It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher – it's like she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music and develop my ear and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.
My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right – Brian had to show me.
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My mom's a concert pianist so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight I started writing my own songs and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically which is a big influence on me I think.