I've Heard It Quoted That I Was

I Went From Adolescence To Senility, Trying To Bypass Maturity.

People Are Stupider Than Anybody.

I Always Like To Make Explicit The Fact That Before I Went Off Not Too Long Ago To Fight In The Trenches, I Was A Mathematician By Profession. I Don't Like People To Get The Idea That I Have To Do This For A Living. I Mean, It Isn't As Though I Had To Do This, You Know, I Could Be Making, Oh, Three Thousand Dollars A Year Just Teaching.

I Figure I Wrote 37 Songs In 20 Years, And That's Not Exactly A Full-time Job. It Wasn't That I Was Writing And Writing And Writing And Quit.

I Would Do Nightclubs And Concerts - Particularly Concerts, Which Is Mostly What I Did - And Only People Who Already Agreed With Me Would Show Up. People Weren't Going To Come And Inadvertently Turn On Their Television Set And Find This Offensive Stuff Coming Out.