You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV

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

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

The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.