So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.
I learn my songs by ear.
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.