“When my book comes out, I mean, there’s a whole chapter on being five years-old at my babysitter’s house. She lived in this old grove house and she had a spare bedroom and I would go in there and turn on the radio. It was about 1967 so you’re hearing good rock and roll on the radio,” he recalled. “For me, it was an escape. I come from an alcoholic home, so it must have been some coping mechanism for me to just escape into this magic world of music. It did something for me, so I thought I have to do this in some capacity, I have to be a part of this.”