:08:03
Whenever I do coffeehouses
and stuff like that...
:08:05
I play, like, Sheryl Crow
and all the folky stuff...
:08:08
then stuff that I wrote,
which is not always rock.
:08:12
Because, my voice, actually,
kind of shines with folky things.
:08:16
You know, like Sheryl Crow
and the Dixie Chicks.
:08:19
Madi's a pain in my ass, okay?
:08:21
Madi has all the support... I don't think
that girl was told no once in her life.
:08:29
Madi's a girl who came to me...
:08:31
and she walked right in,
in front of a room full of people...
:08:34
picked up an acoustic guitar
and sang a Sheryl Crow song.
:08:37
And I was amazed that a teenage girl
would have the courage...
:08:39
to sing a Sheryl Crow song.
:08:41
I gasped that she would sing a Sheryl
Crow song. You know what I mean?
:08:44
If I had to bet on the five kids
who were gonna make it...
:08:46
in some way I'd say Madi's one.
:08:48
She's confident.
She's, you know, she has a good look.
:08:51
She... A little dated, but it works.
:08:54
She can play guitar.
She can sing.
:08:56
She could probably make it
without my help.
:08:58
My concern is, is she gonna
make it as, you know,. Jewel?
:09:01
Or is she gonna make it
as. Joni Mitchell...
:09:04
who could fuckin' play guitar?
I'll tell you what.
:09:12
I'm William H. O'Connor.
:09:16
I was born Caesarean birth.
:09:18
My head was too big to come out
of my mother's uterus...
:09:21
and the umbilical cord
was wrapped around my neck.
:09:24
I have received, I think,
brain damage from that, they think.
:09:28
And from one to three,
I had to wear a neck brace...
:09:33
because my head was too big.
:09:35
And I had to sleep standing...
sitting up like the Elephant Man.
:09:38
Otherwise, blood would rush
to my head and I would die.
:09:40
I was misdiagnosed as retarded
:09:42
and entered the sixth...
Kindergarten at age seven.
:09:47
Other kids would tease me,
call me stupid and retarded.
:09:51
I had to go to special L.D. Classes
for reading and writing.
:09:56
Up till five, I wasn't
given a chance for anything...
:09:59
and I wasn't allowed
to leave my house.