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.

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.

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

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

Rock, meet stubborn place.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.