Singer Gavin DeGraw bounced from Ithaca College to Berklee, but left the music school after just one year. DeGraw decided to leave school because he was scared he would “become knowledgeable about what felt good, that the knowledge would get in the way of [his] heart,” according to his website.

Pictured: DeGraw arrived at the American Music Awards on Nov. 18, 2012, in Los Angeles.