I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.