Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others

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

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

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

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've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.