Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.