I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

I love being the center of attention.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.