Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

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.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

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

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.