Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.