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The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.