First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.