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But then when it came time to do ‘Passion and Warfare,’ I actually thought that was the end of my career.

“Of course, there’s challenges and stuff like that. I don’t have to do anything except what I like, what I really love. It’s weird, my whole career seems to continue to be handed to me on a silver platter. I just loved playing the guitar and recording and listening to this crazy music. “Because I just thought having a career in the music business was just off of my radar. I didn’t think like ‘I have to be successful at this’ or ‘Who’s my audience,’ ‘Is this radio friendly,’ ‘What are people gonna think about it,’ there was none of that. “But the interesting thing when I sat down to do even my first solo album “Flex-Able” – which is very quirky kind of peculiar record ˜˜- I had no expectations. It’s not uncommon, people have visions but a lot of time those visions for their creative potential is cut off because of their own thoughts, that’s one thing that will kind of steer them away. But there was an instinctual kind of music that I knew was inside of me. “I really enjoyed all that stuff, with Dave Roth and Whitesnake and Alcatrazz and Frank Zappa, the ‘Crossroads’ movie – they were great gigs. So that when after the Dave Roth thing, I did ‘Passion and Warfare.’ “But there was also a particular type of music that I knew was in me that was eventually gonna have to come out. And I knew instinctually that it was gonna pass. “So it was really great because I didn’t get sucked into it. I liked the money, but I never bought fancy cars or stuff like that. I didn’t do drugs, I was in a relationship, I wasn’t promiscuous in that way really. “But as I was going through it, I knew that it was a fun game, so to speak. And on tour with Dave it was there in, like, exponentially. “But you have access to money, all kinds of sex, anything you’re interested in, it’s just there. When you’re in a situation like that – you’re selling out arenas around the world, you’re virtually famous over night, you’re selling tons of records and people change around you… And that’s okay, I get it. “I tell some people and it sounds unbelievable what went on. Back then, man… Like with Dave Roth, there was nothing like it. I don’t know how people tour now in rock bands. “I experienced the excess when it was appropriate to experience it, and then I moved on from it. Read what he told The Andertons in a interview: