Of course, it's a certainty that the thwarted childhood musical career would have been a huge success and incredibly lucrative, so that later he would never have written an advice columnist about his mother ruining his life by allowing him to travel for nine months of the year doing gigs as a child...

I'm confused about how his mother's decision to call him by his middle name has caused him, a 41-year-old adult, to have difficulties, because he could have changed his name or used his legal first name at any time after age 18. But he seems more focused on blaming her for his setbacks than on leading his own life.