I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.
I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid.
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.
When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
The Garden State will never leave me.
I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it.
I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.
