In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

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

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.