learning tunes immediately. and therefore, it is music immediately. it's not a whole load of technical work before you get to play a tune. i think that i had an intensity towards the music itself, and a real ability to want to express that. there has to be some impetus and purpose that's attached to anything you're then going to do for that long. and for me, it was the emotional music, it was things that were moving. i was moved to tears by pieces i was learning when i was as young as six. um...that was the pull, and, er...the thing that made me want to go to my violin each day. it was the feeling that you're able to experience yourself and give to other people. that was... it was like a pull.