The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

When I'm onstage I feel changed.

I live on a boat two months out of the year, and if I did not have that then I don't know how I'd be able to handle all this.... I am a very intense person on stage. I have to remember why I am there, what I am doing. You can spend all day backstage preparing for the show and lose sight of why you are doing this. Off stage, I am a very simple kind of guy. I live my life in flip-flops.

I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That was really good for me. And to get some of the ringing out of my years from all the amps on stage.

I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I've got somewhere to go.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.