I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.

For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like my life jacket. If I didn't have that way of processing those feelings, I'd probably be a murderer.

I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.