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

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

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

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.