Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.
I've always had a love of country music.
Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.
Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.
Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.
And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.
There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him.
My good friends call me Bobby.
If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.
You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.
I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone
Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.
They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white
