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

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

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

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

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

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