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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

I was a guitar player first off.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.