Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

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

Only the one who recognizes his power in Jesus Christ can build a strong team.

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

Smile and others will smile back.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.