I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

Honestly, I love stealing things.

I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.