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.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

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 was worried then, I can't remember what about.

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.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.

Your eyes will always be closer to your soul than to any other part of your body except the heart.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.