But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody down south, everybody in the West Coast you know what sayin'.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

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.

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.

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

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

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.

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

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.

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.

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

But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody down south, everybody in the West Coast you know what sayin'.

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

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.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

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 am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen.

I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

All the world loves a lover

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

There's a time in everyone's career where you go, 'Ah, this is hard - how long am I going to have to do this?' But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can't buy you that.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works.

The world can only change from within.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

It's not particularly fun to have to factor in step stools to almost all areas of your home.

Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.

See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common inquisitiveness.