Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.

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

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.