If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

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.