"I'd almost compare it to dorm rooms, like before you start getting your personal stuff moved in and living in them. Which was not a good experience for me, living in dorms, I'm just saying. I used to get picked on--someone once glued my door shut so I had to climb out the window to get to class."

They picked on him because he'd been a prodigy, attending Juilliard from the age of sixteen. And perhaps because of the quirks of his not-yet-trained talent getting loose on him.