I really believe it's the old cliché, the more you give the more you receive. I'm living proof of that.

Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

Many of my lyrics are about having sex with prostitutes.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.