Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.