I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.