Music has been in our family for generations.

We've worked really hard our whole lives to be where we're at today, ... It's not like something that we really wanted - we just wanted to be happy. Music was just survival. It was the way our family got through, and paid the phone bill and the light bill and got shoes for someone.

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

They played all kinds of stuff, and we liked that. With us, anything that hits our ears and our hearts and sounds good is an influence, new or old. Music we gather true meaning from is that old school. It's an oldies-rule-forever kind of deal with us Lonely Boys.

We used to be invited on stage with our father's band to sing that song when we were children.

[So where is Garza these days? Back at that same auto-body repair shop - only now he and his brothers own it.] We buy old cars and fix them up, ... It's something we like to do to get our minds off everything.

[That kicked off quite a run for Los Lonely Boys. Their accessible, earthy brand of Latin-tinged rock earned rave reviews, with Henry Garza drawing favorable comparisons to Carlos Santana.] Heaven ... a dream come true.

You gotta have love for something in your life, ... Music is in our veins.

Who knew that he was gonna be a drummer? We just freaked out. It's weird, and it's a blessing. ... He was the hyper guy of the family, and the baby, too. My dad said he needed ... something to use all that energy. The first 30 minutes he started playing, we knew it was meant to be.