...just how different is the experience of playing smaller clubs with a group of old friends compared to the stadium rock shows you did with Supernova?...


Yeah I miss the big shows but I’m much happier doing this because this is organic and more real.

It’s all my own material and I wanted to build a fan base because of my music, not just because Tommy Lee is in the band. And that shows who my real fans are to be honest. The real fans come out on a rainy night like this and stay up till 12 o’clock at night when we go on stage, and who cry when we play certain songs, and who write me to tell me my songs have changed their life. That’s the epitome of music for me and as soon as that stops, then so do I.

Your story is a true tale of a struggling musician trying to make it, with having lived on the street when you were younger, working dead-end jobs, never catching a break, etc and now you've got this amazingly strong fan base that follows you around and gets excited about everything you do. Because of those fans, and as opposed to the money, the cars and the houses that many people would judge success in the music industry by, would you say that you've made it?

Well first off, fuck the money, fuck the cars, fuck the houses. But absolutely man. If you can change one person’s one life with music then you’ve done your job. But there’s millions of people out there, so I don’t think I’ll be done for a while (laughs).

What advice would you give to anyone out there who has a dream and is having a tough time making it come true, and is thinking of throwing in the towel?

Well you gotta break a sweat before you throw in the towel. Believe in what you’re doing, even if people say you suck and tell you that you’re never going to be anything. Every day is a new day and the greatest thing about being a human being is that we’re all individuals and we do things individually that are totally different from the guy next to you. And you being special in your own way in this world is something that no one else can duplicate.