The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

I just love music in general. I've been a fan of all different kinds of music since I can remember.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.