For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.