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" I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. "

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" I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. "

" Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit. "

" The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. "

" San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. "

" 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. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. "

" I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job. "

" If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while. "

" I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. "

" I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up. "

" I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again. "

" One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money. "

" An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. "

" Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. "

" I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. "

" Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you. "

" It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. "

" There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. "

" Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. "

" Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. "

" I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math. "

" Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff. "

" If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. "

" Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. "

" I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. "

" On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. "

" I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football. "

" I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. "

" In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.' "

" It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. "

" I wasn't really a performer by temperament. "