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

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.

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.

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.

If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

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

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

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

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

'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.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

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.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

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

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

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

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

If wed had another carefree 70s Id have been dead. It was a little too carefree you know I dont know how carefree they were for me I think I was worried then I cant remember what about.

I love receiving fan mail.

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.