Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

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Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

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If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

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