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

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

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

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.