As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed!

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.