I like Public Enemy a great deal..

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

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

It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter ….

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..

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better..

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or u….

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I w….

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I h….

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency..

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?.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America..

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really..

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjun….

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!.