I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

Everything I'm doing now is something I did before, only it's bigger now.

I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.