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 b