I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.