I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

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.

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.