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

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

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

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

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

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