You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.