A visionary.And I really had to grind it out,none of it came easy.I was always the outsider.Then I had to raise a child as a single parent.The world wanted to take him away from me too.The ensuing legal battle with the state cost me fifty thousand dollars.You ain't taking my baby boy away from me and putting him in foster care.They wanted to lock me away in a loony bin.It did not detract from the vision,it was another thing to make it stronger.It became the only sanity that I could see in a world that is insane.Obviously I could not go back out on the road so I went into the studio.I got my ideas together and my concept.Studied voice for two years.I have been a songwriter all of my life.You see my discography but my notebook has over six thousand compositions in it.I write about everything.Yes I am older now,I am a man and not a boy yet I play a zillion times better than I did when I was a boy.This is better than being a pro athelete because you can just keep on doing it.You never have to retire.And it is so easy!It is no wonder everyone would like to do it.But when the rain starts to fall the lightweights are long gone.As an indie your best chance is to experiment and do something decidedly different.Chubby Checker did the twist and that was decidedly different.Every american wanted to do the twist!All ages by the by.EVERYBODY was doing the twist!I spoke to Chubby on the phone and he just kept saying "have you got your hit yet frenchman?"That is in this business what it is all about if you are going to run with the big dogs.That is what you have got to turn in at the end of the day.You have got to play it everynight and make it even better.