There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.