Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

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.

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.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.