Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want to be good at your craft? I don't know what I'm doing. I just want to be happy. But I know I have to keep making music.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.