‚I’ll be back‘ always sounded a little girly to me.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

I am a tough guy.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Nicki Minaj, will you marry me?

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I’m a geek.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

You can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‚Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,‘ and then they say, ‚Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!‘

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.