When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.