Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Growing up, we had folk records.
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.
Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.