I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been