My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.