In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.

My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive.

Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.