When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.

I've fallen in love with baseball.

As a songwriter, the minute you start having sex, you can totally see the difference in the writing. You become an adult - that's kind of the whole backbone of it, really, your identity as a person and what sex means to you.