I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.
I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.
I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.
I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.
Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.
If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.
I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.
You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.
As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
I believe mustard to be one of the most amazing condiments.
I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.
I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
I'll get you naked by the end of this song.
