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After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.