“I've been so candid in the past, and it's burned me. I used to speak without a filter, but I end up in hot water. I barely remember those years. I was taking prescription medication; I was a drugstore cowboy, mixing this with this, seeing what the combinations did. I couldn't picture myself in two years. People would ask, 'What are you going to do in the next record?' And I'd say, 'Dude, I can't even see myself being alive.'”