I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

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

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?