I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I never read the tabloids.

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.