I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

People says it gets easier. People are stupid."-Vlad

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

Everything's uglier up close.Not you.

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that’s a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.