George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

Got 27 children I never see.

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.