My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.