How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.