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I just wanna be a rock star!
Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.
My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.
I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.
For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.
The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns
I saw Cheap Trick play 'In Color,' and it was awesome.
Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.
Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.
I do like my sugar at night, but I try to keep it to a minimum.
I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.
If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.
Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.
The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.
I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.
I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.
I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.
When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.
Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.
A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.
I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.
I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.
I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.
I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.
Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.
'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.
People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.
I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.
Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.
I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.
I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.
That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.
I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.
My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.