I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Breathe in, breathe out, move on.

Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.