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" In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters. "

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" We're only as big as our experiences. "

" My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either. "

" I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. "

" You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music. "

" For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming. "

" I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids. "

" Sing the song or keep it inside. "

" It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot. "

" I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it. "

" As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling. "

" But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself. "

" Who you are as a person has to do with what you think and how you feel. It has to do with how you love and how you care for people. "

" When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy. "

" I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to 'Starman' and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created. "

" Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. "

" I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. "

" I want my ex-wife and children to be happy. "

" Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them. "

" I feel lucky to be alive. "

" Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much. "

" The Beatles have always had a big effect on me. "

" Well, a lot of successes come by mistake. "

" You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore. "

" I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes. "

" It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago. "

" I like wearing fitted jackets mixed with jeans, a button-down shirt and a tie. I like to keep the rock and roll feel but class it up a bit. As far as stage clothes, I prefer John Varvatos and All Saints. They have clothing that is really accessible for wearing every day as well as for wearing on stage. I also love J. Lindeberg's suits. "

" People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am. "

" I've seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on! "

" Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. "

" I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies. "