I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?