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.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.