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Yes, it's beautiful. One of the best times we had recently was at her parents' house, just sitting around singing. Her dad played the pianola and I had my guitar out and we just jammed on songs. It was so beautiful. What a way to spend an afternoon. I just had a huge grin on my face the whole time because I was just in heaven.
Was it hard getting onstage again after coming back from rehab?
Definitely some adjustment. I don't remember exactly the feeling of it other than, just, it was just a bit unfamiliar at first, and then it came back really fast. Because there's such a gratitude to be doing this again….Music is just the great savior for me. The road for any artist can be a place where they run away and hide. Or where they can work through their issues. For me, it's an opportunity to express things that I just don't know how else to express. Do you ever think about where you'll be 20 years from now in your career? God bless Mick Jagger–evidently I've got a ways to go–that's very inspiring. Just within music, there's a myriad of things I'd like to do. I'd love to go out and play guitar for somebody. As a frontman, you're thinking about singing and talking and entertaining and performing, and the guy behind can just focus on playing.
How does it feel to spend time on the road apart from Nicole?
It's hard. But I've also learned to really be grateful for the pain too because it tells me I'm in love. It tells me that I'm without someone, that there's something missing–my partner, my friend, my lover, my wife, my everything. She's missing. So yeah, I used to get really sort of weighed down by those sorts of thoughts. Now I go, well God, it just means I'm alive and I've got a heart that's beating and I'm vulnerable. It's okay.
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