I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need.

Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.