I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

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

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

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.

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.