My father loved people, children and pets.

You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience.

The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.