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

This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?

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.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!