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'm surrounded by great guitar players.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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.