How I Got Started

by Peyton
(Redfield, Arkansas, U.S.)

My mother always had me in piano lessons since the time I was 5. I never really liked playing because all I wanted to do was play sports.

For the most part, I quit playing when I was 8. I started suffering from anxiety and depression when I was 11. At night when I couldn't sleep, I started turning to the piano to help me through it.

I wrote tons of songs and I could play the piano like I never thought I could. It helped me through so many hard times and without the piano, I don't know where I'd be.