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.

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 don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I was more than just a moody artist.

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.