30 Seconds to Mars guitarist Tomo Milicevie and now some inspiration word about his, Milicevie 31 years old, his sister Ivana is an actress who was in CBS's "Love Monkeys".
How is it that both Milicevics became successes?
Miilicevis says, "We won't take no for an answer. You just bust your ass. That's the secret. Most people -- they don't want to admit the fact that you have to work harder."
Not just harder, but sacrificing free time, nights, weekends and TV on the couch.
Milicevic says, "Without me sounding like a total, complete prick, most people don't want to do that. Most people are happy with a mediocre life, and that's fine. I'm obsessed with production and getting (work) done."
Milicevic has been working at musicianship since he was 3, when he gain a famous the violin in Sarajevo. He was on track to become a concert violinist, even as his family moved to Troy, Mich., five years later, and then to L.A. in his late teens. He says, "I was definitely born and bred to become one, but I found the guitar, and then it was like, 'Oh, no, this is the one.' "
Milicevic still loves to violin, he says, "We in the classical music world -- we feel like classical music is still the top-top-top-top level of everything. Those composers are still the only true masters. The interpretation of that music is still the most complicated thing to achieve."