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 haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details.

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I feel what I feel, and in the Premier League, there are some special things, but the pitch is the same. What I believe is good and will be good.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.