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

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.