I can do a gig without an instrument.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I can do a gig without an instrument.

I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

I love to play music.

I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

I like to do the splits onstage.

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things thoughts, ideas, opinions.

When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

I'd make a bad preacher.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

The prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.