I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

Beatles, women and children first!

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else