There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.
Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.
The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords and burn them.
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge when those branches are corrupted or consumed by passing passions.
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up.
I grew up as a country boy.
Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.
I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
I think growth covers up mistakes.
Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
