I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.