People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"

I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research - I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories.

I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

The road to nowhere leads to me.

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.