I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.