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

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

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

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

Things aren't black and white in the world.