I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

You know hearts these days are cheap.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.