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I was born in Somerville, but I don’t remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

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My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
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