I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.