I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

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.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.