People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

Art's for art. Money's for pizza.

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

I still got a few more dances with the devil...

The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.

I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

I don't want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking