I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I started ninth grade a week after everybody else had started, and I didn't know anybody. I was in a chorus class, and they asked me to bring my guitar to school one day, which I did, and all of a sudden, people knew me... in the halls, people would start saying hello.