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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
Short people got no reason to live.
God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.
Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!
I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
Things aren't black and white in the world.
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.
College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.
People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.
I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.
It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.
To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.
I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
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.
There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.
We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.
Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.
The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.
This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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 best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.
But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.