I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man..

I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I wo….

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs..

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compare….

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don….

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that..

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from….

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe..

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out..

A country song is a song about life..

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me..

I've got to be kind of careful because I've had good advice: "Don't sell yourself too short." I have to not be too available to everything that comes….

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to ….

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words..

So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I h….

I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is a song we write together - there's the lin….

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes….

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different..

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song..

I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is g….