"He's turned into some kind of dirtbag.... He goes on the boycott list.... He has all these good songs and everything, American flag songs and all that stuff, and now he's a floating fag."
--New York Fraternal Order of Police president Bob Lucente on Bruce Springsteen, whose song "41 Shots" refers to the killing of Amadou Diallo (in an interview with SonicNet, quoted in the New York Post, 6/11/00)