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

The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years..

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 love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onst….

I'm surrounded by great guitar players..

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday..

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

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen..

I'll watch any show on the History Channel..

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography..

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down….

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video..

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane..

I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there..

I get inspired at different times and in different ways..

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to..

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

I mean I was famous for nothing..

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time..

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