I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Well, I get excited about music.

The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.