I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.