Nobody was with me when I was refused access to my children rightly so, because as a drug addict, I couldn't be trusted to take care of them. I didn't have a record in me. I just roamed around and sorted out dope. That was all I did until I went to jail. It was a spiritual death.
Addiction is a disease of the body, mind and spirit.
You can't create anything when you are spiritually bankrupt. The Mountain , his superb new bluegrass album recorded with The Del McCoury Band, is his fourth in four years. And I'm already half way through the next record, which is another rock album. I don't take dope any more, so I have to write all the fuckin' time. I don't have anything else to do.