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

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

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.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

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.