Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

Save the stonewall to build the levees.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

I can’t hate you. We’re too connected. I can’t hate you without hating me.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

I like fighting Tories... that's what I do.

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.