I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.