Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.