You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can’t give up. I wouldn’t give up. I didn’t give up – or doubt myself – in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.
At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.
If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
When my parents were like, ‘We’re going to the Northwest,’ I thought, ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me.’ I was so depressed. The cold weather really did not agree with me. When I moved back down to L.A. at 16, I felt like it was home – it was where I belonged.
Did you know you can’t say ‘Jesus’ in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin’ me. If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either.
As a person, I have a lot of different sides to me, and I genuinely just embrace them. I don’t think, ‘Oh, I gotta put on my cool face now!’
That’s gotta be the one remaining constant – jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.
In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think you’ve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of people’s opinions.
So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
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