I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

My family lives a pretty normal life.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Whether I'm in the main event or on the preliminary card, the same Cowboy is going to be out there.

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

I would love to go to England.

Leadership is not about the next election its about the next generation.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

In terms of flu prevention, for my son I'll do a quick smoothie, usually with spinach, avocado or broccoli. And then throw in strawberries and blueberries to hide the greens.

Never stop listening to your audience.

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

What happens outside of the campaign is outside of my control.

I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all a bit like this, laugh at me.' Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: 'Aren't I clever? You want to be me, aren't I cool? Revere me.' Which is fine. But that's not my bag.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.