Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

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.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.