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Jonathan, who was driving a taxi on Broadway in downtown Nashville. 

What's your name?  "Jonathan, but everyone calls me Finn." Cool look!  "Thanks.  Usually, I'm in a bow tie.  But, it's hot!"

Happiest time of your life?  "When my son was born."

How old is he?  "He's 9."

How did you change when you became a dad?  "I don't know.  You know, I settled down.  I used to play music full time and I settled down and quit going out as much. Became an adult, instead of being a man-child."

Are you proud of the dad you are?  "I am, I'm a good dad.  I see my son regularly, I pay child support, his mom and I are close...so, I think so."

Toughest time of your life?  "Don't really know.  Growing up, not having a father.  Not really knowing most of my family.  So, I guess that's been pretty hard.  Before my son was born, I drank too much, went out too much...when I was playing music.  I was at a dark place at one time in my life, but after he was born a lot of that changed."

So, you'd say being a dad has been a blessing in more ways that one?  "It has...it has." 

You mentioned you drove a taxi in Louisville for how long?  "14 years, minus being on tour and playing music.  I owned a cab there so I could make money when I wasn't making money.  That's what I'm doing here."

In all these years, what have you learned about people?  "It's hard to say, you know?  People change from...people are different from all over.  You just kind of respect the nationalities of who people are and what they're about and that kind of thing.  But, I've met people from all over the world, so that's kind of what my books about...from hanging out with Malcolm X's daughter and driving her as a professor, to hanging out for a whole summer with a guy who was in Auschwitz...man, take your pick...I've driven a lot of people.  I had 4 hotels that only called me, so I got really lucky in that aspect."