I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Some people find it's easier to hate.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.