"Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can."

"Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs."

"When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get."

"I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music."

"I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry."

"They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time."

"I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love."

"Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me."

"Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do."

"I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield."

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."

"Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything."

"I'll watch any show on the History Channel."

"If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens."

"I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video."

"I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated."

"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."

"Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them."

"My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight."

"I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane."