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.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.