There are certain things you want to go do together, and you want your mate to be there. But mostly you just try and, you know, pick places where you shouldn't be going because it's going to be too crazy.

My dad was a drummer on the weekends when he was young. Being a kid in the '50s, he got bitten by the rock 'n' roll bug like everyone else. He had a fascination with American culture and the American dream. He fell in love with the idealism.

Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.

..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive

I feel like I'm 15 and in my first garage band again, ... I don't know where that's coming from, but I love it. I find an even deeper exuberance in playing music and putting on a show. I'm just giddy about putting all this together and giving something to people that they haven't seen before.

Hey, Bernie, if ya hadn't come into me bedroom and did what ya did to me, mate, I wouldn't have decided to turn me life around the way I did as a result of it, and it's why I'm still alive today.