I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

Diva is a female version of a hustler.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.