What should a song be about? It's a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs aren't 'about' anything. Or, at least, they're not about anything that's obvious or logical.


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When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an e...
ADAM CAROLLA
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
ADAM CAROLLA
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
ADAM CAROLLA
I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
ADAM CAROLLA
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If...
ADAM CAROLLA
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you ...
ADAM CAROLLA
If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real est...
ADAM CAROLLA
When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off...
ADAM CAROLLA
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. ...
ADAM CAROLLA
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' ...
ADAM CAROLLA
My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bi...
ADAM BROWN
As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
ADAM BROWN
It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
ADAM BROWN
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It&#...
ADAM BROWN
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
ADAM BRODY
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been loo...
ADAM BRODY
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
ADAM BRODY
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not ...
ADAM BRODY
I have a pretty lousy voice.
ADAM BRODY
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
ADAM BRODY
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Sm...
ADAM BRODY
I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my...
ADAM BRODY
If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
ADAM BRODY
I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
ADAM BRODY
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newp...
ADAM BRODY
Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls bef...
ADAM BRODY
My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
ADAM BRODY
I like to always have humour in whatever I do.
ADAM BRODY
I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are...
ADAM BRODY
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain ag...
ADAM BRODY
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I trul...
ADAM BRODY
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your be...
ADAM BRODY
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
ADAM BRODY
I'm a fake intellectual.
ADAM BRODY
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surpris...
ADAM BRODY
I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. ...
ADAM BRODY