I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.

I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.