I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

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 make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.