May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.

I know the heart of life is good.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.