Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

If you celebrate Independence Day on just one day of the year, it only goes on to show that you are not truly Free…. Learn to celebrate your Freedom every day!

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

If I stay much longer, I think I will have fallen in love with you.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.