I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.

I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.