When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

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

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I never felt like I had a mother.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

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