Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed..

Short people got no reason to live..

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected..

More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what….

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me..

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about..

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

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up..

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind..

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air..

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one..

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would….

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion an….

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 fan….

Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared ab….

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend i….

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven..

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane..

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology..

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough..