For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.