I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

You know, right now, the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all, I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. You see, I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.