I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
I’ve got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They’re always responsible for their own behavior, and it’s not the dealer, it’s not the friend, it’s not the bad influence, it’s not the childhood.
I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn’t under the influence of mind-altering substance.
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you’re disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you’re out there killing yourself.
Honestly, I’m really just a teddy bear.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
A rock star never gets old!
I don’t take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don’t think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money – I know that this can lead to temptation.
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I’m a certain type of person – which I’m not.
This Life is More than Just a read through.
What I’ve realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
Sometimes life’s so much cooler when you just don’t know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.