My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.