I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.