Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

My mind has a time machine

A cat’s secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.

For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack