The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

I was just going more for what I’ve always been influenced by, European music.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn’t work like that.

It’s a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first – I don’t have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

I’d like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

I’m not financially insecure anymore either so I don’t have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

It was a good learning experience to produce Rob, but I've got so much music going on in my head that I probably won't be doing much producing.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I was just returning to my roots and going forward with the string writing trying to merge what I thought, when I was a kid, made up good albums.