But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

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.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.