Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do what you do. The stuff I listen to in my private collection, it's what moves me, makes me want to play. I want to make other people feel like I feel when I listen to that music. Whether other people like it or criticize it - even if there's only 10 people on the planet that love it, you're touching 10 people that way.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.