She plays both songs, and she says, Do you know that Stephen Foster is the man that wrote both of these songs? What do you mean, Ma? She said, Well, Stephen Foster is a real person that wrote this music. And I wanted you to know that these are his wonderful songs and that people do write songs.

So that lilt, that sort of kind of songwriting, he's also very corny. I mean, that voice, that personality certainly became, it got contributed, it got lent to me through the records, the recordings, as Stephen didn't make any records, as far as I know. And those songs just sort of got infiltrated into my personality. I mean, my mom, put it this way, I think I even talked it over with mom. I feel like Stephen Foster could have written Proud Mary. It seems like that territory.