It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.