We're a very EXPENSIVE group; we BREAK a lot of RULES. It's unheard of to combine opera with a ROCK theme, my dear .

I've always LOVED R&B. That LOVE seemed to start in church. But then I saw Carrie Underwood on AMERICAN IDOL, and I fell in love with country. Heck, I loved the hair bands of the '80s too, so I have always loved country and rock 'n' roll.

I'd RATHER be a MUSICIAN than a ROCK STAR.

Rock & ROLL is not OBSCURE, it's really EASY to understand. So is my painting.

Rock and ROLL has no BEGINNING and no END for it is the very PULSE of life itself.

I grew up in a largely BLACK community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, ROCK, some disco - was considered soulless, aberrant, just one more example of the Caucasian's desire to SCREAM and yell and demand whatever their privilege and perpetual adolescence DICTATED they should demand.

I KNOW I'm a POP star. But sometime I'd LIKE to be a ROCK star.

You wouldn't WANT to be in a ROCK BAND - TRUST me.

I GET asked a lot about the Rock N' SOCK Connection.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson HIDING BEHIND some ROCK or a James Madison BEYOND one sand dune.

I'm a street player, and all of my INFLUENCES come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with GUYS like Mitch Mitchell. I LIKED rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.

If you don't LIKE The Ramones, you don't like ROCK 'n'roll. They're like The Beach BOYS WITHOUT the SEA.

The Telecaster doesn't REALLY SOUND that GOOD for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of PEOPLE played.

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different KINDS of things, and we like rock MUSIC, we like WHATEVER - not saying they was rock, but they had a LITTLE rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.

I started writing when I was trying to be an ACTOR, and I happened to be FRIENDS with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 ROCK' coming out. So Tina, who HAPPENS to be a mentor to me, GAVE me my slot and hired me.