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.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

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