I no longer wanted the music, and it obviously didn't want me. No one from the music business had come to see me at all, not even my friends.

My mother and father kept talking to me about running for office, jumping into the political arena in some way. After my physical therapy came to an end, I started working out in an effort to regain my strength.

At first, I ran for City Counsel and, to my surprise, I won. That was when I started to feel like I could make a ...