A lot of people told me that I`m committing musical suicide with my sound.

If it looks good, you`ll see it. If it sounds good, you`ll hear it. If it`s marketed right, you`ll buy it. But...if it`s real, you`ll feel it.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

You know, when I started I liked Big Macs and Budweiser and I still like Big Macs and Budweiser.

But I`m a great father. That`s why I got custody.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

You know, America loves the underdog and I`m no longer the underdog, so if people are going to start taking shots at me, I`m ready for that.

But honestly, it`s pretty weird; there are girls who`d do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don`t know what it is, but really, when you`re on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I`m not complaining!

You`ve got to work hard for your success and you`ve got to have a steady presence. That`s the secret.

Europeans don`t seem to have the groupie mentality.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you`ve ever seen.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I`m white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

It`s not that I`m Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I`ve got my priorities in order.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let`s face it, at the end of the day, I`m not that smart of a guy. I play Rock `n` Roll, that`s what I do. Who would you trust to make your decisions, Donald Rumsfeld or the Dixie Chicks?

I think what I`ve learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

If it looks good, you`ll see it. If it sounds good, you`ll hear it. If its marketed right, you`ll buy it. But...If its real...you`ll feel it.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it`s kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don`t what else I can say about it. It`s a great thing to do, something I`m definitely proud of.

I care less if I can`t be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don`t.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I`m happy to entertain people by being a star.

I didn`t come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I`m proud of that.

As far as my street cred goes, I`ll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I`ll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I`ll be a star on stage, but I`ll always hang with the kids.

That`s what I love from metal, and that`s what I love from hip-hop. That`s what I love from any music that`s hard, that`s got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

I`m actually a pretty decent human being, and when I`m home I`m straight as an arrow.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

I didn`t want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that`s not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it`s not what the majority of the country is thinking.

Rock `n` roll is much easier if you`re white.

Well, in America people know us. We`ve got it made there, but in Europe people don`t know us. We`ve got to win them over and that`s a challenge.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

They believed you can`t mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you`re really into it and like what you`re doing.

My shows aren`t about trying to save some place, because I don`t feel that`s the right venue for it. That`s my politics right there: Don`t bring politics to my shows.

My past is a bit checkered.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it`s doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don`t have money need some help.

That`s why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I`m a white boy who`s so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

No, but we put a rider in our contract that there has to be Pabst Blue Ribbon in our dressing rooms, just because we thought it would be funny.

And there`s a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

I could care less about what people think. I`m a Devil Without A Cause.