I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I realized that almost everything that's happened to me was the result of being in the right place at the right time. And I thought "Well, luck has a lot to do with it," so I wrote it from that perspective.