There weren`t a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I don`t want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn`t Rick Springfield.

I`ve been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that`s my true love.

I`ll watch any show on the History Channel.

I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

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`ve always liked the heavier stuff. I`ve always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

When someone pursues music through your music, that`s the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

I don`t think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

I`ve heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I`m underrated.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that`s pretty much it.

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 would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

If the timing`s right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that`s where I`m heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.