I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.

Early on I was just a kid in a cowboy hat with a bunch of other guys in a room that were putting out some records. Now thank God, in the past 3 or 4 years, when.. it's really hard to burn an image of a face with a song these days. I think that the songs like 'Don't Happen Twice' and 'Young' were songs that helped me do that and I think that 'I Go Back'(did) that even more.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.