I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.