I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.