It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.