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There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.