It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.