I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.

I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.