There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I have seen my mugshot.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

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.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.