Revealing Quotes

“I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theater and watch movies. I’m a movie buff.”

“I’m a perfectionist. I can’t help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.”

“If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That’s what I was always told as a kid, and It’s worked for me so far! “

“My hair is so unmanageable.”

“I’ve had bottles thrown at me–glass bottles full of piss–and I’ve had girls run on stage and try to tear my clothes off.”

Romantic Quotes

“Every relationship I’ve been in, I’ve overwhelmed the girl. They just can’t handle all the love.”

“I may not ever get over her [Britney Spears] . . . I really do still love that girl."

“A lot of girls have cheated on me in the past, so it’s hard for me to trust. But once I fall, I fall hard.”

“True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.”

“Pretty is cool, but it’s not really about looks for me. It’s more about personality. I like a girl with a good sense of humor, who’s humble and sensitive.”

“Love is the basis of everything. First you have good chemistry, and then you fall in love.”

Funny Quotes

“I believe people can move things with their minds.”

“I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.”

“I pick my nose and I’m not ashamed to admit it. If there’s a bogey then just pick it, man.”

On why he hasn’t bought an iPod. “I’m technologically challenged. It’s enough work having to shave!”

Music/Career Quotes

“I didn’t put out this album [Justified] because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I’m 21 and that’s not grown up.“

“I needed freedom to really express myself. That’s really what Justified is about.”

“Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.”

“Christina Aguilera had that same voice when she was ten… She is, in my opinion, the best singer of my generation.”

“I could give you a bunch of analogies about why I’m still around that would sound like hippie self-help bullsh*t. I saw an opportunity and I took it. Sure there’s a lot of luck involved. But on some level I have to believe in my ability. And I’m not apologizing to anyone. I worked f**king hard to get here.”

“I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don’t do anything at all so I was a bit of a loner being interested in music. I was not cool. It was football or die! I would come to school, and was bit of an outcast but I wasn’t bullied too much, thank God. But if I could say one thing to the kids who didn’t think I was cool back then it would be, ‘Eat it.’”

“The sex scene [in Black Snake Moan] was pretty hot. I’m not going to say it doesn’t feel weird pretending to f**k someone in front of a man with a sound boom, though.”

Family Quotes

“I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.”