I back my way into math through music - once you really get into composition and analysis (especially of medieval polyphony, or Bach) you find yourself doing math. Hence the close connection in more enlightened times between math and music (e.g. The Music of the Spheres, John Dunstable (the greatest English composer before William Byrd, also an astronomer and mathematician) and the Quadrivium).
Music sounds better though, plus I like and understand it, so it's all good.
I spent the afternoon in the company of a Juilliard graduate who explained to me the mathematical basis of music. It was beautiful, and I think I understood it for about a day...