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.

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.

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

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

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

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