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. |
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love. |
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling. |
I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails. |
Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them. |
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. |
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do. |
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight. |
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. |
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to. |
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens. |
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff. |
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. |
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. |
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. |
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 want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield. |
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. |
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything. |