What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

Awards are for young people. They just are.

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

I'm not here to win a popularity contest.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.

We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.

Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.

NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.

There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

The Steelers run a great organization.

I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.

My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

Market size, particularly when you're dealing with major media markets, has an impact in terms of gathering attention.

I don't weigh into politics.

Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.

The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.

I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.

My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.