My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

Rich people know how to party, too.

If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.

When you set a goal for yourself, you do what you need to.

A lot of groups get dirty deals. They work hard and have to get a job after their career is over.

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.

Don't sign your publishing away.

You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.

I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.

I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.

Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.

My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!

I don't think you can erase history.

We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.

John 5 - he's weird. He's a freak. I'm just kidding. He's a great guy.

There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.

We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too.

We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.

Most of our fans are the hardworking people of the world. They are the people who have made this country great.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

Oh, I'm terrible at travel.

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.