Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.
After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
I picked it up and moved it 10 to 15 yards and put it by a brick wall to stop people getting hurt...Then it went off. I was blown across the road, and a couple of nails lodged in my leg and I was hit by concrete and glass.