I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

... Melissa better not turn her back on her because nothing sums up crazy as much as a fat woman in love.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

I’ll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.