Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.

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.

The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

It's like she has her heart in her hand and it's broken. She's holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it's my heart.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

The god of the world's leading religion.

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

I've always believed in survival.

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

I've never bothered about my color.