John Fogerty

I was hearing this sound and I liked it and I just kind of went with it.

I didn't try to analyze it too much.

And of course later with all the things, the different roads you go through trying to get to some place...

happily i still get that same joy i mean i i just i'm just so glad you know i a lot of this of course is from the care of my wife julie uh if i hadn't met her i probably would be dead simply that really yeah wow why do you think you'd be dead

I didn't see any way out.

I was really abusing myself, alcohol mostly.

I really felt bad inside.

When you get like that, Joe...

you're not really operating on the same plane in the world that all the other people that you see.

You walk into a market or something, look around, and probably most of the people are kind of normal, whatever we call that.

But when you're really hurting inside for whatever reason, I mean, in my case, something really unjust had been done to me.

However you get there and then you start abusing yourself with drugs, alcohol, whatever, it becomes a habit.

You just stay there, right?

And so you're not really enjoying the sunshine and the love that's around you and all the rest of it.

You become kind of a pathetic person, sad, certainly.

So that, you know, that was the deal.

When Julie met me, I was that guy.

There was sort of a, certainly an anger, I mean, but a bitterness, too.

Almost like a self-fulfilling...

prophecy where you look for something to go wrong and then it goes wrong and you go see I told you I mean it's a terrible mental place to be and I was there do you think this was a loop that you got in because of the lawsuits oh yeah it did that it really just got you that hard