Waters is adamantly against the idea of ever retiring the look. But doesn’t it get annoying? “The only time I would shave it off is if I was going to prison, because I wouldn’t have the proper tools,” he relents. “I don’t want to be putting it on with a number two pencil — which I have tried — because it doesn’t work, or taking a cigarette butt and trying to fill it in, which would be a little too much for beauty.” He adds that if he ever had to go undercover in disguise, he would think about getting rid of the mustache — but even that, he wagers, might not work. “I bet if I shaved it off now there would be a mark there, or a scar, because I’ve had it for so long,” he says with a laugh. “Why would I get rid of it now?”