Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.