I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.