I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness.

With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

For me, playing a vampire isn't about the fact that they're a vampire, it's about who they are specifically.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.