I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson