I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.