A long and deep-seeded desire to communicate through sound. That's really what led me to it.
Most composers find themselves on their paths.
But I've always had great desires to just tell everybody what I see and what I feel, and what's going on. To do that through music seemed to me the most elegant and most deeply communicative way. It's part of this region's Scandinavian heritage. I also was very lucky in that I learned to read and write music in first grade as did everybody in my grade school. I went to a Catholic grade school before the Vatican II Council, and we all learned to read and write so that we could sing Gregorian chant for daily services.