You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.

I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.