On the Jamie McKibbin Outdoor Show, the “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent joined the Big Dog to talk about more than just the outdoors.

First, they touched on how Ted lives his life: “I have been clean and sober my entire life. God gave me the precious, sacred, gift of life, and I want it to be optimized, I want it to be maximum tuned in. That means a proper diet, never putting anything poisonous or chemical inside my sacred temple. What you witness as a kid in a candy store is that I’m really, really alive. You may have noticed this, I’m very, very alive because I found my musical passions, my outdoor passions, my marksmanship passions, certainly God, family, and country are the triad of the American dream.” Nugent said.

How did Nugent avoid all the temptations?: “I did not avoid parties, but drooling, stumbling, puking and dying does not a party make. I avoided the so-called temptations of drugs and alcohol and all that stupid, deadly, suicidal behavior the same way I avoided stabbing myself in the eyeball with an ice pick; it really looked like a stupid thing to do.”

With the wild life surrounding him and the intensity of his music, Nugent needed an outlet. His was archery: “(I) Put my heart and soul into the most intense, high-energy, outrageous, defiant, authoritative, grooving, black soulful music I could possibly create; which I do, every lick, every song, every gig, every concert, every record; but at some point you’ve got to shut that insanity, that intensity, that intoxicating, grinding musical adventure, you have to learn to shut it down. The ultimate way was discovered when I was a little boy, with the mystical flight of the arrow. I promise you, Jamie; if Elvis, or certainly Jimi Hendrix, or Bon Scott, or Keith Moon or John Belushi, if all these dead artists would’ve just pursued the mystical flight of the arrow; to get away from the intensity of their creativity art, if they’d had a bow and arrow instead of cocaine, instead of dope, instead of intoxicants. If they would’ve had the discipline of archery, they would all still be alive today.”

You can hear the complete interview on Jackson ESPN.