“I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don’t go my way. I’ll get community service no matter which laws I break.”

I try to write like the writers I admire – I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase… So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.

I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.

The nice thing about the world that I’ve been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I’m given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It’s who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

When they say you’re the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

Someday I’m gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don’t need it.

Guitar playing isn’t really for everybody.

There ain’t a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn’t matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I’ll blame it on the fame.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.

…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

I find it fascinating to see other people’s photos on social media but I don’t upload pictures myself. I don’t even know how to. I’m completely digital-phobic.

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world).