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.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

We could never have guessed We were already blessed where we are.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.