I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

How much hair product does it take to get those spikes?

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

A person who dreams for a long time becomes similar to his/her dreams

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.