From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

It definitely affects your lifestyle if you don?t have a six-figure income.

That changed the whole perspective. But from my point of view, I wasn't going to walk down to Sheila (Murphy) and tell her when I found out 'Hey, I'm going to walk away now.' We knew it was going to be difficult. But the kids have been great.

From my perspective, knowing what we had to do and how it was supposed to go, I don't see any glitches. Obviously, the clocks and scoreboard were different and the music playing was a bit of a distraction. I'm sure I'll get some e-mails and phone calls tomorrow and I'll talk with the coaches, and if it makes sense to do it again, we'll do it again.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.