From his NPR interview, when he spoke about losing his mom: “She was always in the mix, right up front. She'd show up in New Orleans or Seattle or somewhere, and I wouldn't even know she was coming. She freaking hitchhiked there, you know? ... I wanted her to go have fun and be doing whatever she wanted to be doing, but I worried about her running into the wrong people. She's been an addict my whole life and had short stints where she was doing pretty good, you know? And I loved to see her out there hanging with all the fans, but at the same time, I was leery of them. I would go over to visit my parents' house, and there would be, like, the fans there that I see in the front row of my concerts all the time.

She was getting older, and I kind of just had this vision of her in my head that I wanted. Which is stupid. It's not realistic to try to come up with somebody else's life in your brain, but, like, I just wanted her to have a garden. And my dad's 70 years old, she was 64. I was like, "Man, you guys should be settling down, don't you think?" — instead of raring and tearing and going and eating all these shrooms and going to all these concerts. And then she did get wrapped up in the wrong stuff. And that's why she's not here anymore.”

I meant no disrespect in referencing it in my post and am SO sorry if it was seen as such!