I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.