Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.