People strive for success, but it's very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?