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.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.