It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

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.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

I'm not the kind of man that holds out on a need for nothing. I'm as lonely as any man around, I just don't like to pick 'em up and lay 'em down.

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.