And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

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

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.