That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

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 lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.