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.

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

You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

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

Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.