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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.