As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes, ” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life