The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.