Normal Norman has been singing all his life. He remembers, in particular, being selected as "Best Singer" in Sister Mary Godfrey's fourth grade class - nevermind that Norman's class consisted of assorted frogs, dogs, and crows . . .

Well not really, but little Norman loved to sing. He started making up songs when he was a teenager. He'd be on his newspaper route and start humming little melodies he heard in his head, then he'd add words, and pretty soon, by the end of his paper route, he would have a song completed.

Of course it was usually a very bad song, but he didn't care. (Click on Norman's picture if you want to see him make a funny face!) Norman didn't know it at the time, but those little melodies he'd make up were nurturing the creative process he'd use to write the songs he would compose later on.

Norman lives in a little house in Richmond, Virginia with two turtles named Ike and Ivan. He likes to garden and grow flowers and vegetables. (Click here to see a nice picture of his garden as reported in the local newspaper.) His favorite flower is the sunflower. Norman believes he was a worm in another life because he loves to get his hands down in the dirt. Norman has been playing in Dog's New Clothes since 1988.