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.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.