The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.