I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.