well... there's so many people in life that have rough times in their lives, you know. got an alcoholic father... which you did. ..who tried to kill me with a butcher knife, a mother who died of cancer and almost, i mean, that almost destroyed me — i mean, it took me ten years to get over that — but... ..i can't blame... i can't... like on my father's side, you get too many people in the world that act up and do things and they go, "well, my father did this, "and so this is why..." and i don't live that way. i love my father. i've forgiven my father. god bless him, you know, and my mother and i'm going to cry now, because i don't do that. no sense of blame in you? no, you can't. you just took responsibility for your own life. i take responsibility for my life and my life only. so, let's get to that, you were raised in texas, but you made it to new york and you made it into hair and i think in los angeles, you got a part in the musical and within a pretty short time, you were in the rock and roll business, as well. yeah, i don't know how i got there. what would you define as your biggest break? well, there's two of them.