 You know, I thank my mom because if my mom wasn't there getting my back, if she was also one of the people saying to me, hey, you know, you can't listen to that white boy music, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't have had the confidence to do the stuff I did. But it was a struggle. It was a fight. But it wasn't a fight with me. It wasn't an internal fight. It was a fight with everybody else to just let me do what I wanted to do. The start of the band that became Hootie and the Blowfish has something to do with another hit music maker, Billy Joel.