I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.