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 can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

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

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.