They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I was more than just a moody artist.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.