I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

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.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.