I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.

What good is it if a guy can sing real good but he sits on his ass and doesn't make anybody feel anything? I can connect with an audience every time I play. When I sing, they listen.

If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good.

Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish you could teach our artists how to do it." At one point I was the punching bag of what not to be, and now I'm the model of what to be.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.