"I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25."

"When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines."

"A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it."

"I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime."

"I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters."

"I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two."

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

"I just wish I could understand my father."