Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.