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" Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you. "

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" Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut. "

" I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. "

" When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.' "

" I think to stay in one sound is a career killer. "

" It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family. "

" I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows. "

" I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems. "

" The Beatles have always had a big effect on me. "

" It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago. "

" When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all. "

" I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. "

" I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs. "

" I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to 'Starman' and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created. "

" Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides. "

" I want my ex-wife and children to be happy. "

" Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s. "

" The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable. "

" I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids. "

" It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories. "

" I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is. "

" It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs. "

" Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I. "

" The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter. "

" I feel lucky to be alive. "

" I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. "

" I sang in choir as a kid. "

" Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. "

" When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy. "