I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.

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

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

I don't really lose my temper that much, but when somebody mistreats my guys, I just go crazy.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.

Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did.

I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. I've got a long line of girls who could testify that I am not gay.