I don't have many easy songs.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.