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I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.