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.

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've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life