And musically he was always leagues ahead – he could do either a really beautiful emotive slow piano burner like Sometimes It Snows in April, and on the other he could go into some mad rap number.
He is mad for numbered lists: the six most frequently asked questions about the Green movement; the four main roots of the protest movement; the three ways to grow the movement.
I'm not talking about the silly Mad Hatter numbers that we laugh at at Ascot, but fedoras, berets, Stetsons or baker-boy caps, which are timeless classics.
As it happens, I sometimes look at my landline telephone, which I barely use – it requires you to press the actual digits of a number! mad! – but still incurs rental costs, and ask myself why I don't just get rid.
The third single, "Mad," peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
People were mad and a number of them took to the web to voice their anger.
Multiplying out of control, howler monkeys went mad as their numbers soared and the plants they ate increased toxins in self-defense.
"In movie-mad India, a number of jewelry companies are using the allure of film stars to attract customers," Gayatri Rangachari Shah writes in The International Herald Tribune.
There was a brief, mad moment where the number of votes for other people combined with the number of people who hadn't voted hit the 17 mark, but in short order that number was brought down by late-in-arriving votes from Reps.
So, we asked a number of "mad scientists" to offer their own creations.
