Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented it to Alice [Cooper]. It felt like he wrote the lyrics in about a minute.

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.