mcdonald's and jindal, i insisted i would get a sign way piano when i finally got some money. i was in a studio apartment now. it was so huge, the piano. i slept on a couch, and i slept under the piano. when i rolled out of bed, it went under the piano. i was very happy every night sleeping under the piano. >> you must really like music. >> i would have to. tavis: you have had so many jingles over your career. >> they come to you and say here is the product. how does that work? >> they give you the lyrics and the melody, and you have to write duquette she is melete and now in 15 second -- to write the catchiest melete -- melody and 15 seconds, and if they like the rest of it, they buy it. for melodic commercials, these days they do not do it. >> what ever happened to melodies in music? >> the drum machine. the drum machines took over. they are making great-sounding records with great grooves, but the song writing took a back seat. >> what are marine -- what are we missing out on with the absence of the melody? >> the melodies seem to have gone to country music country music se