My past is a bit checkered.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

I read a lot of lot non-demanding fiction.

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas