Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.