The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.