I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

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

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

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

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.

Things aren't black and white in the world.