I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent on anything.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion

'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

My cholesterol count has a comma.

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.