As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.