Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.

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

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.