You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.