We were lucky. The kids bought in to the changes early on.

With an artist it's like you're walking out into a room with your underwear on and everyone's pointing and laughing. When I show 'Raising of Lazarus' I guarantee that every artist in all of Salt Lake will come up and find something wrong with it. That gets kind of old.

That shocked a lot of people, including myself, to beat a team of that caliber right out of the gate. That gave our kids some confidence and they were able to buy in a little more because they saw the result on the floor.

It makes you tear up a bit just to see that the kids can do something for you. There's one resident who knew that I did not have breakfast, lunch or dinner yesterday. At 10 at night, she was shoving crackers in my pocket telling me to keep my strength up as we were walking through here. I made her take them back, but they try and give back as well too.

Our players and staff learn more than the kids do.

The only way you can sell 10 million Britney Spears records is to convince kids that it's something they need to have as part of their identity. It's not about the music at that point,