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.

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.

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.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

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.

When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.