When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.