There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Both of my parents were musicians.

Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.

There is no way to find a logical way to deal with this when logic isn't involved.

I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people need to know -- it's not me saying that, it's the media. I'm a rocker.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.