They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.