We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.