Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

I'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score, how to handle money or start a war. Wouldn't even have to tell me what we were fighting for. He'd be the right man, if he were a white man.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.