I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.

When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

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

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.