"Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them."
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"Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself."
"Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father."
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?"
"He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright."
"She never was really charming till she died."
"I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm."
"I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married."
"A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good."
"The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)"
"You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from just people's acquired bitterness over experiences."
"In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night."
"I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them."
"Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile."
"However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive."
"Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf."
"The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges."
"The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time."
"Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic."
"I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not."