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.

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.

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

Time has a wonderful way to show us what really matters.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

He can't give you a future.""I know. Because I make my own future.

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

Too Big To Fail is nothing compared to Too Holy To Fall.

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

I try not to eat too much dairy or gluten.

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Anybody that says different is selling something.