When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.