Mika

and I wanted to know what was inside.

I wanted to know what was going on inside and how it made that noise.

So I think there's some sort of curiosities that just kind of provoke a chemical reaction.

And I think as parents, I was so lucky and I think a lot of parents have this natural thing where they can feel when there is that reaction happening in the kid in front of them.

It's really important just to go there.

And give that to allow them to go and experiment and feel that and experience it.

So the pushing, you know, and the pushing and the mom who's sitting out there in the Toyota Previa in the pouring rain, I can see her on my shoulder.

And she's sitting there going, go on, you do it.

That forcefulness and that encouragement doesn't come from an empty place.

It comes from a natural predisposition, a natural curiosity that was already instilled.

You know, that was already very clear and manifesting itself early on.

I think it was music.

It was really music and storytelling and using music to express yourself.

Um, and, uh, it was, it was really encouraged, encouraged with me.

It, it, I had a lot of problems at school.

Um, I was young and I had a lot of problems and we, my dad had had, uh, we had a lot of issues at home.

I was born in Beirut in the eighties in 1983.

And, and it was, uh,

It was a really violent time in the civil war there.

And of course I don't remember any of that.