Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
I have no problem with starting from scratch.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.