Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.