Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.