UD You performed at The House of Blues this past New Year's Eve. What was it like being back in LA on the same Sunset Strip where you were a couple of years back, destroying your life, smoking crack, and God knows what? How did it feel being back there as a new and improved, healthy and positive, Francis Dunnery singing words of hope and delight? FRANCIS Good questions you're asking, very good questions. The first time I was back in L.A. since my sobriety, I arrived with Robert Plant on a private Lear jet, had a limousine pick me up on the tarmac which took me straight to the Four Seasons Hotel. I was thinking at that time that the last time I was driving down this street, I was a crack head, I lost my house, I lost my marriage, I lost all my money, my dignity. I was bankrupt financially, emotionally, and spiritually. I felt like fucking Caesar coming back into Rome. It was fantastic! Three years ago the world was full of fucking assholes, but I can't find one now. It's not the world that changes, I'll tell you that right now. UD Was it because three years ago you were looking for those assholes? FRANCIS Perception changes. What happens is the energy around your body is dependent on how you feel about yourself. That energy pulls toward you the same type of energy as what you've got. Jesus said blessed are the merciful for they will receive mercy. He meant blessed are the frustrated for they will receive frustration. I mean if you want to be understood, understand somebody. If you say I'm going to give a gift of fifty dollars to someone. When you receive a check from the tax man for four hundred dollars and you don't even know why? 'Great fucking coincidence'. Become aware. I'm not very religious but I do believe coincidences are God's way of being anonymous.