Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.