For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.