People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.