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 once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

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

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.

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

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.