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 stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know if I was stoned or straight... All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.