When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.