My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.

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.

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

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.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want me a pork chop. I want me a lamb chop, even a piece of duck every once in awhile. We used to have ham and salami, all that crazy stuff.