It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.

I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.