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 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 know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously...

The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything I got into.

I really believe it's the old cliché, the more you give the more you receive. I'm living proof of that.