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 don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I have loved music so much from when I was little and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea, I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.