"I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people."

"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

"I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I."

"I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame."

"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."

"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."

"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."