I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

You take all the time to write a song: you have to let it ooze on out by its natural self and that is pretty time consuming. Then you teach it to the band so everybody gets all the parts. Then you rehearse it and road test it, and all that. Then you get to the studio and there is a new guy in the band who calls himself the producer, right? Huh. He either makes it or breaks it usually before nightfall.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.