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Howard Stern Comes Again

by Madonna, Howard Stern, Tracy Morgan, Jerry Seinfeld, Ozzy Osbourne and 56 others

Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities—discussing se

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Donald Trump (10)Anderson Cooper (9)Billy Joel (7)Lady GaGa (7)Lena Dunham (6)Madonna (6)Conan O'Brien (6)Jay Z (6)Rosie O'Donnell (5)Ozzy Osbourne (5)

“Not too many famous people. I go with broken-down, lost girls. That’s my thing.”

— Vincent Gallo, amazon.com

Tagged: lost girls, Dating

“We make crazy money and we’re getting to live out our dreams. And then you’re complaining, and anyone listening is rightfully thinking, 'You’re a jackass.'”

— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com

Tagged: Fame, Contentment

“Here’s the other thing that was really important to me that no one thinks about. I never made a decision in my career based on money. Not once. I’m not going to lie, it’s nice to have money. But I’ve also not had money, and I’m okay with that. We wanted to keep my body of work. All I ever wanted was…”

— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, Contentment

“I go to a psychiatrist and I’m somewhat medicated. Not crazy levels but...I used to think I needed to be incredibly unhappy to be funny. Then you get to a point where you think—and people tell you that’s not true—you get to a point where you don’t care if it’s true or not. You just think, 'You know…”

— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com

Tagged: medication, Happiness, Depression

“I was funny. But I was not the class clown. The class clown is the guy that gets up and sets the clock ahead twenty minutes. That guy always dies in a motel shootout.”

— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com

Tagged: class clown

“You see, I think people give me credit for having this intelligence that...I think I have a lot of emotional intelligence. There are certain things I know a lot about, and there are areas where I am staggeringly stupid.”

— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com

Tagged: Emotinal Intelligence, Stupid

“I had to. We had just won the NBA championship. And it was such a unique moment. And there’s a backstory. We were in Miami. The night before I had taken some Mavs customers to this club, LIV. I’m nervous as hell. I’ve got these customers with me. I’m not drinking. The DJ spots me and he says, 'You k…”

— Mark Cuban, amazon.com

Tagged: NBA Finals, Dallas Mavericks, Miami, Taunting, ass

“It’s lonely. You have this family with you, this traveling family of wolverines that you create, and that’s not lonely. But if you’ve developed relationships outside of that, when you leave them it’s really hard to nourish them.”

— Sia, amazon.com

Tagged: The Road, loineliness, wolverine

“Yeah, I believe in a higher power and it’s called Whatever Dude and he’s a queer, surfing Santa that’s a bit like my grandpa. So yes.”

— Sia, amazon.com

Tagged: Higher Power, Queer, santa, grandpa

“The best thing an artist ever told me when I was quite young was, 'Hard wood grows slowly.' That’s really the truth.”

— Jewel, amazon.com

Tagged: Growth, Wisdom

“While I was homeless there were people who were obviously trying to prey on me. But at the same time there were people who were nice for no reason.”

— Jewel, amazon.com

Tagged: homeless, Predators, kindness

“Sia: Not really. I think they thought I was an attention seeker. I was tap dancing for attention right out of the—can I say the v-word? Howard: The vagina. Sia: The vagina. Howard: Right out of the vagina, you were doing your thing. Sia: Right out, I was tap dancing.”

— Sia, amazon.com

Tagged: Attention, tap-dancing, Narcissism, Vagina

“My parents really loved me, but they thought I was totally ill. Mentally ill. My mother went many times to our house doctor and complained to him: 'There’s something off with our son. Because he comes home for lunch and then he does 250 sit- ups instead of eating lunch. Then he comes home at ten o’c…”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger, amazon.com

Tagged: mental, Boxers, bodybuilders

“I would play it this way and that way. I could do it for an hour, swear to God. Until someone told me to stop and shut up. I did have one really humiliating experience. This guy came up and just put his hands on the strings and said, 'Shhhhh.' And then walked away with his pretty Dutch girlfriends.…”

— Dave Matthews, amazon.com

Tagged: busking, Humiliation

“I was in such need to become somebody. I grew up in this little town in Austria, and it was after the Second World War. It was miserable. There was starvation. People were angry because they just lost the war. And there was frustration, alcoholism, all of those things. It was a tough life. And so I…”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger, amazon.com

Tagged: World War II, Survival, Starvatoin, Frustraition, Alcoholism

“I think most people thought we were just like these brooding, negative guys. I was psyched, man. I was.”

— Dave Grohl, amazon.com

Tagged: brooding, Negative, Nirvana, Fame

“You go to these parties and you sort of feel dumb after a while. There’s too many famous people there. And you feel sort of dumb. Like, 'What am I doing here?' And all the girls have six-inch heels on. I couldn’t be more of a pipsqueak. Even worse than normal. So I just walk around and say hi to the…”

— David Spade, amazon.com

Tagged: parties, Fame, pipsqueak

“Kendrick: Nah, I’m not going crazy. I’m all right. You gotta have grounded people around you, people that are going to tell you the truth. Howard: How do you know who those people are? Kendrick: Well, these the people that are honest with you since day one. They have to be honest with you. When you…”

— Kendrick Lamar, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, Fame, Trust

“Howard: So fame and money, the big thing is the private plane. Kid Rock: Bingo. Abso-fucking-lutely. There’s nothing fucking bigger than a plane. Nothing. These motherfuckers that live in LA—I feel bad for these motherfucking musicians who I think have fucking money. I’m like, 'Oh you live in those…”

— Kid Rock, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, Fame, Wealth, Fucking, Private Plane

“Enough to get this apartment after Superbad, but it hadn’t come out. So Michael and I walk around every day, talking about bullshit that twenty-year-old guys talk about. I remember I bought a newspaper August 17, 2007. It was literally the craziest day. It was the day Superbad came out. And it start…”

— Jonah Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Siuperbad, Fucking, Bullshit, Fame