Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.