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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

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.

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

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.