Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

Guns are part of the American identity.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.