When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery kicks sand in your face don't give up, keep moving forward. Use your brain and eliminate a lot of your personal agony. There are times when you should not take NO for an answer. But there are others when you should never put yourself in the place to be rejected to begin with. Seek the wisdom to know the difference and then go for it. Persevere in the face of disappointment.

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.