Musician Quotes

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

I never listened to country music growing up.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

My career is my girlfriend.

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I take Epsom salt baths.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.