You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.