I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
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 an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.