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I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.
The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.
As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.
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.
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've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.
I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.
You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
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.
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.
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.
I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.
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 do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.
I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.