So now for real, how are you? How's getting home or

what's up? I am awesome.

I mean, not meaning that I'm awesome, but I'm feeling awesome.

I'll tell you what I was.

I was saying during that tour.

And a lot of it had to do, and the three of you know this, being able to really spend as much time on my own.

You know, I drove, which was really helpful.

early hugging all right go chef

Yeah

... not the kids at, they're 10 and 11, their parents were.

So I didn't notice anything.

Dad came up to LA to become, you know, one of The Wrecking Crew bass players.

And, and so I was in San Diego and my mother had bands and, and, um, I joined her band at 14, and she was always, and still is, my Northern Star that just always was showing me the belief and encouraging.

And so she kept pounding on me, "You gotta sing." 'Cause bass was very natural.

I got my dad's thing.

Anyway, go ahead.

Are you a daily writer? Are you journaling? I mean, how is it that you're able to just open yourself up and receive?

Great question.

And I agree with you.

It comes from repetition.

You know, I used to, when I joined Chicago, um, I was stepping into something that they were hoping, not expecting, you know, they were hoping that I would be writing songs on the level of what Peter Cetera was doing, which is virtually impossible.

I mean, at the peak of Chicago's career, um, um but i was always pretty good at writing melodies and and chord changes so what happened is that i was getting with the greatest lyricists in the world i didn't think that i had time to experiment you know i wasn't going to say okay i got this great melody and chord progression so i'm going to sit here and and the labor trying to write a lyric.

No, I'd call the greatest lyricists in the world and boom.

I love the way you use the word band because how many people say me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, but you said band, which really, really inspired me.