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

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

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.

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

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