Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?