I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Through the years I've accumulated this big bag of songs. When I go out I do close to two hours, and it's all just attitude - and up-tempo. I've accumulated so many of those types of songs now that the show just gets off with a bang, and I'll only do two or three ballads the whole show.

Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.