« My drug addiction became the worst it has ever been, » he says. « I didn’t want to wake up in the morning any more. It was just too painful to keep on. »
For about a year he stayed in bed, wrestling the depressive side effects of hepatitis C medication. He stopped writing songs, playing the guitar, seeing friends.
« The good thing is that my life finally became so intolerable that I could no longer be bothered to go out and buy drugs, » he concludes with a parched cackle that shakes his wraithlike body. « As a consequence, in the last year and a half, a lot of good things have started to happen to me. »
source: Michael Dwyer (http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/still-the-boy-next-door/2008/10/31/1224956299409.html)