Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.