Find the friends who do that. Find the friends who never tell you that you can’t do it, but who point you in the right direction, hold you when you fail, and push you when you need the push. Those are hard friends to value sometimes, but they are the best of friends.

That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.

A willingness to come uptown.

I was always a watcher.

Ever since I saw The Beatles in 1962-63 I started to dream about being in a group. Being on stage, in a group, writing your own songs, it just seemed like they were having a ton amount of fun and there was this huge music explosion.

I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.

I nearly lost my leg and things like that, my life and my leg, you know? So (laughter) yeah, so gradually through the '90s, early 2000s, I was gradually trying to get off drugs, really. That's what I was doing, you know? I'm glad I'm like this today because I wouldn't be here talking to you. I would be probably either dead, in prison or gone crazy.

Yeah, well, he died of too much of all the right things.

I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.

I’m the sexy sexagenarian. Then I’m gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha!