In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.