Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?

When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."