“All through the book, I’ll say something and the character will come in and go, ‘Wait a minute, that didn’t happen like that’, so I’m arguing with my character – the Jekyll and Hyde thing all the way through the book, which is kind of unique,” the 78-year-old said.<\/p>\n
He added: “I love playing him because that’s who he is and he should be that on stage, but off stage we don’t think alike at all.<\/p>\n
“I’m in church on Sunday. I even teach Bible study sometimes and you would look at the character on stage and go ‘how can that be?'”<\/p>\n
The rock star also spoke openly about the dangers of drugs and alcohol and warned that today’s young people face a far more dangerous environment than previous generations.<\/p>\n
“When I was on cocaine, I was an entirely different person. All of my senses went away and I was living for the drug, so it’s a form of possession,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And same with alcohol. I know people who are the nicest people in the world but, as soon as they drink, they become just the opposite. It’s almost a poison or an allergy or something.”<\/p>\n
The singer spoke about Solid Rock, an organisation he launched to support young people by offering free after-school training in music, dance and art.<\/p>\n
“I think kids are living in a really dangerous world right now. What’s going on on the street is a much more dangerous world than what we had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“All through the book, I’ll say something and the character will come in and go, ‘Wait a minute,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}