"I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree."

"If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song."

"It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that."

"I'd rather have 1000 of our fans than 10,000 Kid Rock fans!"

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."

"It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon."

"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it."

"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible."