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" When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album. "

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

" I think to stay in one sound is a career killer. "

" Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am. "

" 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. "

" Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands. "

" I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it. "

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

" When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.' "

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

" I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. "

" Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. "

" I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on. "

" It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs. "

" Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out. "

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

" 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. "

" When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single. "

" 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 still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible. "

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

" Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut. "

" I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb. "

" 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. "

" To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it. "

" I sang in choir as a kid. "

" As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record. "

" A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. "

" I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs. "

" When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all. "

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