I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am..

If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me som….

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you….

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole..

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a f….

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well..

I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory i….

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else..

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..

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspec….

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else..

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I w….

And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be cr….

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 diffic….

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 b….

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff..

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way..

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording….

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too..

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..

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