I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.