David Byrne is opening up about how he avoided the addiction problems associated with rock stars and musicians.

The Talking Heads singer recently told i-D magazine that he knows it is “super common” for musicians to waste their talents on alcohol and drugs. That is why he’s taken great care to avoid the same fate.

“We’ve seen a lot of people go from being very vibrant and creative to just being a mess. Early on with Talking Heads, I was reading these rock biographies on people like Alice Cooper, and they all had this similar arc: super successful, ego out of control, start to drink and do drugs, go into rehab, then attempt to come back,” he explained.

“It’s a cycle. And I thought, ‘You don’t want to fall into that,’” he added. While he is not “100% clean,” he has taken drugs but realized that extreme usage is not sustainable for famous musicians.

“I still have maybe one more glass of wine that I think is sensible. But you’d see people around you who were just destroying their lives,” he explained.…