With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.
You don't make solo albums to have hits.
I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'