There used to be 19 franchises. We were the last ones to buy, and now we're the only remaining original owners. Our two sons will inherit the business when we retire.

We still use the original recipe, which remains secret. But I'll say that our breading gives the chicken its distinct taste. Unlike most places, we also cook the chicken in lard, and we only use fresh chicken - not frozen pieces.

There were seven and a half feet of water in the restaurant, and we had to close three weeks for repairs. But we also were the first local business to reopen.

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.