I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'