“The old country singers, they were badass, they were the American badass people. I’m an American badass. At 40 years old, I’m gonna be a country singer.”

You make my life so hard but that’s what gets me off.

I might wear skinny pants one day; I might wear thrift shop pants the next day.

I Used to have friends now but I got enemies.

If y’all are actually my fans and friends and love me and want me to be mentally stable, can y’all please let me live? I’m trying my best here. That’s all I can do.

You know that I’m too drunk to talk right now. You put your cigarette out on my face.

I’m just a fun guy.

I’m hungry. I’m ready to grow.

I’m trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that’s really fresh.

Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation.

I’m no good at goodbyes.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

If you keep staring at the sun, you won’t see.

She told me that I’m not enough and she left me with a broken heart.

On the road as an artist u start to crave the studio.

You can’t get tired in the studio. It’s really tough. But you just gotta keep on going.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

I’ve totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what’s right for you. I know exactly what’s right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, ‘Don’t do that, don’t do that,’ you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.