My father retired, and I took a job as a physical therapy aide. After five years, he got better. He wanted to go back into business, so we opened a bakery in Malaga. He had nine more years of health after that.

After I lost my father, I thought I couldn't do this without him.

He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thing that my father ever did. I follow his recipes to a tee.

Right now, the techniques for gene therapy are kind of brute force. You put the gene in and hope it goes into the right place. There's no selection. What we would like to do is put the gene into stem cells, grow them and watch them to be as sure as one can be that we've got the right gene into the right cells and nothing untoward has happened.

I've realized therapy is incredibly therapeutic.

Songwriting is a kind of therapy for both the writer and the listener if you choose to use it that way . When you see that stuff help other people that’s great and wonderful confirmation that you’re doing the right thing.