Steve Young Quotes

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

I didn't drink for two years.

I love Sertab Erener with 'Everyway That I Can' - that was an absolute tune.

I'm a horrible musician, but I've been fortunate enough to play great songs.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.