When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.