kennedy from time to time during the series i was shooting "star trek." and i met all the astronauts and the heroes and everything and i was very impressed. so when they went to the moon, i had reached -- they were at the apogee. i was divorced and the show cancelled and i am looking up there. >> oh, man. >> looking at a little black and white -- and i'm lying in a -- in a cab trying to find -- to get some sleep because i have to perform -- perform the next day and i can't afford a hotel room and all that kind of thing. so 55 years later, i wrote a song for this album i've got that's out there now called "bill." >> yeah, you've got a spoken-word album that's just come out? that's so cool. >> it's gotten rave reviews, and one of the songs is "so far from the moon." and it's all about that moment when i was looking at the sky, being so far from the moon. and here i am, all this time later, being a few-thousand feet