>> i prefer the poetry of patrick cavanaugh if you read roy foster's -- the ageneral thys magi, there's a real lesson in there for me because you see all the local problems he gets into and all the letters he's writing put out fires and god you could have been writing poetry, that's so insignificant. >> rose: what makes a songwriter >> you know, i -- that is -- you know i -- drug of choice. >> rose: that's the drug? >> for me. i cannot believe that you have this melody line in your head and you take it down and you find words for it and an arrangement for it and the next thing you know you can be in a car in tokyo and it's on the radio. that's really my drug of choice and songs are everything, really to us in the band and people say that the songs are like your children. no, they're like your parents. >> rose: (laughs) >> really. they tell you what to do. they tell you how to behave. they tell you how to misbehave. how to dress. everything you do is directed by the songs and it's a mysterious process. a mysterious process. you sort of wait. they find you if you're in the right place and

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kpix 5's patrick sedillo talked to people hoping they have the right numbers. >>> reporter: at cavanaughuors in san lorenzo today there was no shortage of customers. >> long vacation. >> buy a house. >> reporter: what would you do if you won? >> go into hiding. >> reporter: that's because the store is well known for being lucky and people from all over the bay area have been gravitating toward it all week. >> we have had four or actually five big winners, lottery winners, over the years. >> reporter: the powerball jackpot is now more than $600 million setting a new record that's getting higher every minute. if the cashout is taken, the winner or winners will still walk with $376 million, not bad for a small bet. >> there we go. >> thank you. >> reporter: even though the odds are 175 million to 1, people streamed in chasing their dreams. >> everybody has a wish. everybody has a dream. everybody has a want. >> reporter: and everybody has a different plan if they have the perfect combination of numbers that will change their lives forever. >> i won before. >> reporter: paul has won big befo