I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.