I'm Half Jewish, Half Scottish.

People Are Really Much More Respectful Than They're Made Out To Be And Much More Discerning About The Fact That I'm Not The Character I Play.

There Are People Who Are Really Great Musicians. I've Met A Lot Of Them. And I'm Not A Great Musician. I'm Adequate Enough To Be Able To Throw Some Chords Together And Write Songs, But I Can Only Feel That Because I'm Expressing Something Honestly, Or In A Heartfelt Way, Or In Some Way That's Not Bullshit, That In Some Way The Songs Have Merit.

It's Almost Obscene When You See People Who Haven't Matured, Who Haven't Changed, Who Don't Have The Weight Of Years On Them. So That's Interesting To Me - To Think About Playing Him Into The Future, Anew.

Maybe With "californication" The Character Was Partly Based On Rick Moody. I Read Him And Jay Mcinerney, The Templates For This Bad Boy Novelist.

I Understand The Self-loathing And The Resentment, And The Discipline That It Takes To Sit Down In Front Of A Typewriter Or Computer Every Single Day, Whether It's Going Well Or Not Going Well.