I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.