I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.