I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.