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

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

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.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

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'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

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