I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.