We're Parents First, And Once You Have

I Try To Give As Much Blanket Forgiveness As Much As Possible In My Life Because That's The Only Way You Can Get Past Things And Move Forward. But, Conversely, I'd Like To Be Forgiven. In Many Ways, That's The Bigger Leap, The Bigger Transformation And The Bigger Step Forward.

Five Years Ago I Figured We Were At The Top Of Our Game And That Was The Best It Was Going To Get, But With Every Album It Seems To Keep On Building On Itself.

I Think Of Myself As A Serious Artist. Sometimes You Can Get In Your Head Too Much About That And Forget That You Have To Have Fun. I've Been Guilty In My Career About That At Times. But The More I Thought About It, The More I Thought I Didn't Want Anybody Else To Have A Hit With It!

You Do What You Do And You Pay For Your Sins And There's No Such Thing As What Might Have Been.

It’s Innate In Me To Be A Democrat — A True Southern Populist Kind Of Democrat. There’s Not A Lot Of Those Anymore. I’m Not Saying I’m Right Or Wrong. That’s Just The Way I Feel. The Issues That Matter To Me Are The Social Safety Nets For People, Health Care, Middle-class Concerns. We Need To Take Care Of The Middle Class And The Poor In Our Country. The Chasm Is Getting Larger Between Haves And Have-nots, And That’s Something We Need To Close Down A Little Bit.