I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

I never know how much of what I say is true.