We're not all in a position to suddenly show up in New Orleans and start handing out supplies, but you do what you can with what you have. I'm a radio guy. So I tried to put together something that would drive people to help out with the Red Cross.

The problem is with these that the donations are not only not going to charities, but you're handing over credit card info and details used for further fraud.

Someone has to pay for salaries and supplies and to keep the facilities going, and if it's not the government it's got to be the parents.

(We need) supplies, something to sleep on. We lost everything. We used to live in New Orleans.

There were some contributing things, but I made mistakes, and that's why I'm in this position. I'm not going to hide from it. If anything, it's going to make me that much more focused, that much more hungry. Some people think I won't be able to bounce back, but that's my motivation.

New Orleans has been a musician's paradise. But if musicians start leaving, that cool vibrant music scene could be gone.