I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

It troubled me at the time, but I was a working man, a family man, I didn't want to make any waves and lose my job.

David Arroyo was at that time ... a very happy man because he had his family with him. He always talked about buying a ranch in the East Texas area and raising horses. ... All he wanted to do in life was to be what I would call a modern-day cowboy, (a cowboy) like Texas had 150 years ago.

I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already become teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.