A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.