To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.