I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

I love to go on stage and sing.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.