I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.