I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

You fake something until you're good at it.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

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

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.