I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.