I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight and they all had big voices too just different than mine.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that not knowing how to play music - well still not knowing how to play music.

When I was a kid I was following black soul music.

My heart which is so full to overflowing has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Music is forever music should grow and mature with you following you right on up until you die.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

You know I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.