I'll say, 'This is true, but my dad wears a size 9 and I wear a size 15. I have my own shoes to fill and I'm sure my pops can fill his own shoes.' It's not about following in his footsteps but taking an inspiration from him and following my own path.

When you are writing, you have to go for the jugular, ... You have to write what's true. I really believe in telling the truth. I don't feel any blame, guilt, shame or anger for the things I've lived in my life. In that way I think I am free. If I felt guilty about the things I did, I wouldn't have had the book published.

capturing the sound -- to be soulful, sincere, simple, be true to the motives of honoring the music. And that's all I concentrated on.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

my mom and dad, the upbringing we had.

Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.