My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.

I bend but I do not break.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.