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That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.