I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
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'm surrounded by great guitar players.
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
I have seen my mugshot.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
I mean I was famous for nothing.
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'll watch any show on the History Channel.
I was more than just a moody artist.
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.
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 was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.
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.
