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.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.