I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.

My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.