We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

Art's for art. Money's for pizza.

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

I still got a few more dances with the devil...

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

The only thing that stops you from your success is the fear of the unkown

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.