I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.