When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?

When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.