 This is about black people selling out other black people. |
| What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other. |
| Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. |
| I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. |
| This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. |
| You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. |
| In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. |
| People have the right to say what they want to. |
| What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible. |
| I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? |
| I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians. |
| I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace. |
| I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. |
| I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. |
