"I've got a great family, great friends, and I'm still making music. What more could I ask for?"

"I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I …"

"I don't know what I'm doing half the time, but I just keep going."

"The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto."

"I don't regret any of the drugs I took. The only drugs I regret are the ones I didn't take."