You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think of me as a mini-folk hero because it's difficult for them to believe a man of my age is sexually active.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?