Billy Joel depression

Billy Joel depression, The pop star went into rehab for his drinking habit in 2005 but in a wide-ranging interview insisted that the spate of accidents in two preceding years was not caused by his heavy consumption of vodka, his alcohol of choice.

"I was kind of in a mental fog, and it had nothing to do with the booze," he told The New York Times. My mind wasn't right. I wasn't focused. I went into a deep, deep depression after 9/11.

"9/11 just knocked the wind out of me, and I don't know even now if I've recovered from it. It really, really hurt that man could do that to man.

"And then there was a break-up with somebody, and it took me a while to get me back on my feet again ... I used booze as medication."

Joel said that he still drinks "a glass of wine once in a while" and does not "subscribe to" the 12-step anti-addiction programme of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The star whose hits include "Uptown Girl", "Piano Man" and "Only the Good Die Young" also revealed why he has not written a pop song in 20 years.

"I got tired of it," he said. "I got bored with it. I wanted to write something other than the three-minute pop tune."

He rejected comments by Elton John, a frequent touring partner, that he gave up writing new music "out of fear or laziness" and had not taken rehab seriously. But he insisted that he was not offended by the remarks. "I think his heart is in the right place. He's kind of like a mom," he said.

When his interviewer observed that John "kind of looks like a mom", Joel agreed, saying: "Yeah, he's got mom hair."
He continued: "He doesn't know anything about my private life. He's a very friendly, charming man, a nice fun guy, but we really never spent much time personally together ... I'd work with him again, sure."

The diminutive musician, 63, has a penchant for younger taller beauties. He was once married to supermodel Christie Brinkley, about whom he wrote "Uptown Girl", and later dated Elle Macpherson.

He pulled out of a deal to publish his nearly-finished memoirs two years ago, despite a reported $3 million advance, when he learned the marketing campaign was to be "Divorce, Depression and Drinking". His version of his life would not have been that salacious, he said.

"They wanted more sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, and there's not that much in my life," he said. Joel has toured extensively over the last two decades, won a Tony award for a musical about his career and released a collection of classical music. But he said that he said that he did not miss the life of a pop star.

He said that he has "no bitterness" about two deals early in his career that cost him an estimated $30 million and indicated that he had no immediate plans to deliver "four or five regular albums" owed to Columbia Records.
"It's indentured servitude when you sign with a record company," he said.

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