I had started taking guitar lessons at around 9 or 10 (after getting extremely hooked on the Beatles), which gave me some general musical knowledge, but it's still a lot less than I wish I had. This really helped spark an interest in music for me, but not necessarily in production.
I started listening to electronic in around 2011 (at age 11) when I heard some of Daft Punk's stuff. I heard Ghosts n Stuff by deadmau5 by accident in 2012 and was
addicted to it for weeks. I eventually happened across some other producers like Skrillex and had phases where I really obsessed over an artist, but I don't think I decided that I wanted to make my own music until mid-to-late 2013 when I saw Madeon's
Pop Culture video.
I was so mesmerized by how he had managed to pull such a thing off, and I looked into how it was done. I received a Launchpad Mini as a Christmas gift and began learning how Ableton worked. I spent too much time doing other things, and when I was using it, I was wasting time by simply playing with other people's projects and trying to make things with very little musical knowledge. After losing a lot of confidence in myself, I pretty much quit altogether, but then realized that not producing wasn't going to improve anything. I started again, and met some people that have really taught me a lot about music. I have
a lot of room to improve, but I'm working on it. Aren't we all?