As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

Success doesn't change you... It reveals you

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.