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.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

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.

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.

Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.

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.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.