… giving me energy. Matter of fact, it was getting in the way — had been in the way and didn’t know it. Then there’s my wife, and of course she’s going to remind me. But all of that, it just came to a natural [conclusion]. My thought was, if I change up now, ain’t nobody going to notice it. They won’t be able to stop me because they won’t think I’m doing it.”
“If I was able to do it while on drugs, I might still be doing it. But, you can fool yourself when you get high. You say ‘I’m doing what I want to do.’ But, I wasn’t really doing what I wanted to do. Now, I’m able to control the situation. Because this music is history.”
“I feel lucky and blessed that I got away with the things that I did do. But there’s got to be an easier way to do that. I guess people have to go through whatever their time requires them to go through and if they can see it as inspiration, you know, fine. But I’m not taking no blame for it. They say if you take the bow, you take the blame.”