My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

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

Life and values do run in cycles.