Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of work, then anyone you might mention alive or dead is a failure. But I've learned to not be too hung up on what's fair or not fair.

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.