My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

Unfortunately, I made the mistake at one point of putting my address on the back of one of my albums, just to find out what would happen. I received a lot of disturbing mail and calls. Actually, I was living in a hotel, so it was easy enough to find the number. I got a kick out of it for a while. Then I realized what I'd done.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.