If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.