Now Playing: "Doctor Noize"

I knew of Danny Darko’s amazing life story, and I thought he was, in many ways, the most intriguing – and certainly the most unlikely – voice in children’s music. It became clear through our chats that Danny and I had a lot more in common than we had suspected. We both had unusual childhoods for people in children’s music. Danny and I both decided, at some point, that our lives were not going to be defined by the misfortunes that had occurred in our youth.