I Learned How To Scream

Partly, I Like A Bad Reputation. But I Also Want A Reputation Of Being A Good Person.

Performance-wise, You Really Need To Be Down In The Trenches; You Need To Do The Hard Work, For A Lot Of Reasons: To Build Yourself As A Performer, To Get A Sense Of The Audience, To Work Hard And To Wonder, 'do I Really Want To Do This?'

You Got Nothing To Lose. You Don't Lose When You Lose Fake Friends.

At This Point, A Lot Of People Have Made Their Mind Up About Me One Way Or Another. I'm Sure There's A Certain Segment Of Writers Who Won't Ever Give Me The Time Of Day, Hate Me, Don't Get Me, Don't Think I'm Good, Or Whatever. I Guess That's Fine. It's Only An Opinion. There Are Other People Who Do Get It, And Can Be Objective. I Could Be Wrong, But A Lot Of People, Except For Really Young People, Have Made Up Their Minds One Way Or The Other.

As A Kid, In The Runaways, I Would See The Interviewers Start To Ask About Our Personal Lives And What We Did — And I Could See The Look In Their Eyes. They Were Practically Frothing At The Mouth. So If I Answered These Questions, I Knew They Were Never Gonna Talk About The Music. It Was Like That Instinct — Don’t Go There, Man. Have Boundaries. Have Mystery. You Don’t Have To Let Everybody In! I Want To Be Singing To Everybody, And I Want Everybody To Think That I’m Singing To Them. Guys, Girls And Everyone In Between.