I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.