I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.