You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.