You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.