When you say something is very DIFFERENT to a core base that expects HEAVY music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna GET MELLOW, they're gonna get soft.'

It's CRITICAL - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and SOCIAL Security that they not SEE benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their BENEFITS are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna HAPPEN.

When everybody GOES LEFT, I'm gonna GO RIGHT most of the time.

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.

I'm a take-me-as-l-am PERSON, and all the rest is water under the BRIDGE. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen TOMORROW.

To me there's no creativity WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem WITHIN the container.

You BETTER TAKE CARE of me LORD, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

If you're gonna use simile, ANALOGY, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or SENTIMENT, then you're SORT of writing a novel, REALLY. But ROCK lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

I Googled 'What do rich people BUY?' Because I don't feel like a rich PERSON, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't KNOW what they buy. I didn't really like the STUFF I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep WORKING out.

What are you gonna do, TALK the ALIEN to DEATH?

Sometimes you want to GIVE up the GUITAR, you'll HATE the guitar. But if you STICK with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

All I'm gonna do is just GO on and do what I FEEL.

I was into the Mets because my Dad WORKED at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday NIGHT Live' where my BOSS has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as WELL ROOT for the team I'm gonna go sit with.