In a new interview with the Disturbing The Priest podcast, Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Canadian metallers ANVIL spoke about his health, several months after he underwent a heart procedure. The 68-year-old musician said in part: “You have things that happen because of your age. I had a heart condition. It’s repaired, but I still have to go through getting it repaired. And it wasn’t a major thing. It was just a couple of circuits had to be fixed. It wasn’t heart surgery or anything. It’s really just electrical adjustment; that’s the best way I can describe it.”

Lips went on to say that he has been smoking pot since he was 14 years old. But he added: “I don’t smoke a lot — once or once or twice a day at the most. And I can’t say that’s every day. Sometimes I don’t smoke for weeks on end. There was a period of time I did two years without smoking anything, and that was to stop smoking cigarettes, which is the biggest accomplishment of my life.”

Asked when he stopped smoking cigarettes, Lips said: “Six years ago. I don’t even think about it, and I had to really think about it to come up with the six years, because the time is going. I’m going, ‘Well, only a couple of years ago.’ No, that’s not a couple of years ago. If it was a couple of years ago, I would still get cravings. I don’t get cravings anymore.”