My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel.

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

That background helped me a lot, because it taught me to fend for myself from a very early age, and to be responsible. It was an upheaval of an upbringing, which seems to have worked, I guess.

My parents were very strict. They thought boarding school would do me good. So, when I was about seven, I was put in one in India for a while.

My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have endless discussions about them. So I got my first record player when I was 11 years old.