Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

Optimism is my best defense.

I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.

I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way. The key is creating scenarios that people can relate to.

There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.