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

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

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.

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.