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.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.