There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?