You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

I know music is subjective.