Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.