I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

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

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.