I'm The One In The Band That

I'm Not A Rock Star. Sure I Am, To A Certain Extent Because Of The Situation, But When Kids Ask Me How It Feels To Be A Rock Star, I Say Leave Me Alone, I'm Not A Rock Star. I'm Not In It For The Fame, I'm In It Because I Like To Play.

Before The Operation On My Left Hand I Wasn't Able To Stretch My Fingers Open All The Way. I've Never Had Very Big Hands, But I Could Do The Splits With Them. Eventually I Couldn't Any More. I Had A Twisted Tendon In My Little Finger That Prevented Me From Being Able To Stretch.

I Can't Read Music. Instead, I'd Do Stuff Inside The Piano, Do Harmonics And All Kinds Of Crazy Things. They Used To Put Me In These Annual Piano Contests Down At Long Beach City College, And Two Years In A Row, I Won First Prize - Out Of Like 5,000 Kids!

I Mean It's Funny, Playing Music, How Of Course You Want It To Do Well, You Want Them To Like It, But It's Not Competitive Like An Election, It's The Olympics, It's Not A Formula 1 Race. The Billboard Charts Are Just To Show You What People Like.

The Only Band I Was Really Over-into Was Cream. And The Only Thing I Really Liked About Them Was Their Live Stuff 'cause They Played Two Verses, Then Go Off And Jam For 20 Minutes, Come Back And Do A Chorus And End. And I Love The Live Jam Stuff, The Improvisation.