I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

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.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

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

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.