It's no fun being a specimen.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.