If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.
I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.
You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.
I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.
When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.
Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.