I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

People know that I'm very outspoken. I've learned that when I talk, it usually comes off very aggressive. It's not that I'm aggressive - I'm very stern.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I look very serious. I look stern even when I'm not stern. If I'm not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can't help it. It's just my face.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

I got a lot of fans, like core fans, that love me. I ain't one of the dudes that sell five or 10 million brackets, but my followers are stern. They're there. My fans - Jadakiss fans, LOX fans, D-Block fans - they loyal.

Like probably many people of little education who find themselves, like pop stars or film stars, suddenly lauded by the whole world, it is very difficult if you have not had a mother bringing you up who was quite stern and strict.

The truth of the matter is, when you're on 'Howard Stern,' you feel like you're in his living room talking to him, you don't feel like you're having an interview.

You have to be stern in your voice, because if you are in there wavering and wobbling and fumbling over words, all the guys are going to be like, 'What is this guy doing in here, Coach? Get him out. Get someone else in.'

Going on 'Howard Stern' was embarrassing.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.