I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

Always...no wait...never.

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

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

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.