"We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper."

“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

Source : "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

“Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.”

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

Source : "IN THE STUDIO WITH: Don Imus; It's a Hideous Life, And You Get to Hear All About It". Interview with Charles McCord, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1993.

“Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.”

“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”

“I think first huge gay following started out with our keyboard player Jesper Anderberg. When he joined the band we were still in high school, and he was two years younger than us. He has a really boyish look, so all the gay guys fell in love with him straight away. We have a couple of cute guys in the band, and we play that kind of music that will go in a club. And I was dating a girl for a while - that might have something to do with it.”

“I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.”

“Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 30, 2014