My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

Writing is a great love of mine.

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.