If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.