The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.