If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.