Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
I have no problem with starting from scratch.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.
I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others
