I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.