The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

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 meditate. Meditation helps me.

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

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.