These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

Marketing is the devil.

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.