Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

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

My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.

Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.