I meditate. Meditation helps me.

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 write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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.

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