When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world

It's really fun to listen to other people and be an accompanist.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

Without music, I could not get through.