If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.

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

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

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.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.