As a youngster he seems to have been thoroughly normal. I used to quite like doing school work. I used to sit at the front of the class and creep to the teachers and do lots of homework and get 100 per cent on tests and come top of the class. Somewhere along the line he got lots of spots. He wasn't a happy boy.
Doctors just think it's a bit of a joke.
And it's not. Having spots makes you feel like such an ugly geek. Eventually he found a sympathetic doctor who sent him to a skin specialist - after a course of antibiotics they all disappeared. His main interest, even then, was architecture. Pop music, in particular, he simply wasn't very interested in.