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.

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

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

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

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

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.