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.

I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.

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.

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

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.

It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.