The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.