Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

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.

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.

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

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.