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I didn't think realistically that I could ever make it in music. It was drummed into me that it just wouldn't happen. But then you meet so many other people in this industry that just had exactly the same thing and were just, they were just different and they had something. And yeah, I took my guitar, I mean, I remember buying like, I think it was like 200 pounds, but I had a 200 pound overdraft on my account. So I bought it with that and then I like had no money. You know, why would it happen to me? I'm like just from a small town."
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