I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

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

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

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.

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.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

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