Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.