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I can remember my parents fighting and us kids wondering who was going to go with whom if they got divorced.

My uncle was a preacher and he had this gospel group. He did the whole bit where he stood up at the podium and held his arms out crying, and said, Come on, run up, and be saved. And people would come up to his feet – that whole weird idol thing.

My cousins had a gospel group and they came down and played gospel songs, and that was the first time I ever saw an electric guitar. I got obsessed with the electric guitar, so my Mom bought me one from them for $25. I was about twelve years old. Then I locked myself in a room for a year and taught myself how to play, learned off records, and then I started playing in little garage bands. The first group I was ever in was called Flame. Then I was in The Kids. They were the ones who moved to Hollywood.

(Living in small town Miramar as a kid)”Miramar was like Endora, the town in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? It had two identical grocery stores opposite each other and nothing much ever happened there.”

I’m a weirdo. I think every single person is a weirdo; we are all really weird in our own special ways.