I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.