I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.