If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

My greatest competition is, well, me.