Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

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.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

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.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

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.