You've got to be able to sell yourself.

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.

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

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.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.