I’d like to be a piano player.

For me, something will come in my head and I’ll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I’ll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks,...

If I win, I’ll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she’s happy then I’ll be happy.

In the ’90s, guitar solos were dead.

I don’t want to say I can’t wait to get back to normal life, because I don’t. I don’t want to get back to normal life.

I do belong on stage.

There’s going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don’t think I could really talk about them.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I don’t want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

I was always in bands before, but on ‘American Idol,’ it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.

I just like music. If it’s hookey and good, I dig it.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don’t know you.

It doesn’t matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren’t supporting it and buying your music, it’s hard to make it.

I’m looking to see what the bigger picture is.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

You have to think there’s a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They’re the ones too high to sing every night – not that you’ll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

I’m not ashamed of selling millions of records. I’m very fortunate to be in that position.

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we’re in L.A., because he doesn’t go out. We’ll hang and he’ll play us some of...

Maybe some people thought I was ‘safe’ so they didn’t really bothered to vote for me at all.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

My son’s taking drum lessons, and my daughter’s taking piano lessons. One day they’re going to start a band.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, ‘I want to write right now.’ It has to just kind of come out. It’s not something...

What I do doesn’t sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don’t have a cool card, but I also don’t have thin skin.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they’re interested in something, I want them to try it out.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it’s more fun to go out and perform live, because it’s like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

I’m living my dream now.