You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.
It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
