I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

It doesna matter the direction necessity forces ye to take in life, it matters which way ye go when ye have a choice.

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.