I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

Darkness is my friend, and my biggest enemy" Temporary dark and deep

The best way to protect something is to set it free.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Systems die instincts remain.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.