The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

I'm interested in the real world.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.