I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.