I don't wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, 'this guy's a star,' I always say, 'good luck.'
It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.
As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.
You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.
Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.
We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.
It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.
There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.
