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.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.